Yrjö Kukkapuro RDI (6 April 1933 – 8 February 2025) was a Finnish interior architect and furniture designer.

Kukkapuro studied design at the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki in the late 1950s, qualifying as an interior architect in 1958.

The couple built a home studio in Kauniainen, designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro and his long-time collaborator, engineer Eero Paloheimo.

[9][8] According to his daughter, he kept working until the end, asking only a week before his death for his assistant to visit, because he had a nearly-finished chair design he wanted to discuss.

[9] In 1983, Kukkapuro was awarded the Pro Finlandia [fi] medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland.