This landscape allows Mr. Laakkonen to revel in the kind of cooking that is impossible in a restaurant or in an apartment: big open-air pig roasts and kettles of Finnish-style fish stews with just-caught pickerel and bass.
If you're planning more than a day trip to enjoy Wiltshire's impressive gardens, you could base yourself at Poulton Lodge Marlborough (poultonlodge.com), a Finnish-style log cabin set on a working farm.
Just as he plundered the country he ruled for four years, here Mr Yanukovych ransacked the history of European design, housing himself in an oversized Finnish-style chalet surrounded by faux-Roman statues and stuffed with fake French antiques.A rather different idea of Europe was expressed by the men and women who occupied Kiev's Independence Square, known as the Maidan.
And so that was how my wife and I came into possession of an excellent second home in the country with a garden and a plot to plant vegetables in, and a separate brick shed that was later converted into a real Finnish-style sauna — for only $6,000.
From £450 a week, accomable.com Finnish-style log cabin This property near the Shropshire Hills and the Welsh Marches is not just eco-friendly – hand-built with wood from local douglas firs and using an energy-saving wood-pellet stove, solar water-heating, an induction hob and LED/low-energy lighting – it's also great fun to stay in, too.
Occasionally, Tolkien wrote Quenya with a "Finnish-style" orthography (rather than the standard Latin-Romance version), in which c is replaced by k, y with j, and long vowels written double; hence, the name Ecyanáro would be written Ekjanaaro.
The unassuming "Finnish-style" sauna is hidden among dead hotels and unspecific storefronts, that's far enough from the infamous Main and Hastings intersection for outsiders to venture, but not far enough to escape the local aesthetic.
All the pieces you ever hear in the concert hall, violinist Pekka Kuusisto reminded us in typically Finnish deadpan style, were written by living composers.
For his next exhibition, which was on the work of Alvar Aalto, Ban didn't have the budget to create an installation out of wood, which would have evoked most effectively the Finnish architect's style.
