Elli Ruuth | |
Nationality: | Finnish |
Birth Date: | 1893 |
Death Place: | 1975 |
Significant Buildings: | Finnish embassy in Moscow |
Elli Ruuth (1893 – 1975) was a Finnish furniture architect. She was active in 1924 – 1952.[1] [2]
Ruuth designed furniture for various state and municipal buildings.[3] According to Architecta, the Finnish association of women architects, her "most brilliant" works were the interiors of the Finnish embassy in Moscow and in Helsinki.
In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä, Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman, was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects.[4]