Despite being among the most abundant tree species in Finland, pine has been largely overlooked and underutilized as a furniture-making material by recent generations, who have favored the durability and uniform texture of birch wood. While typically classified as a soft, lesser-quality wood that’s better suited for paper pulp than interior design, pine—abundant, cheap, and peppered with gnarly knots—was once the timber of choice for the country’s crafts, log houses, hand-carved tools, and furniture, and effectively shaped Finnish domestic life. The Helsinki-based furniture company Vaarnii seeks to revive the use of pine in furniture making, and with it, forge a new era in Finnish design that celebrates the material’s intrinsic qualities and cultural history.