Rosenthal Studio-Line Dinnerware Suomi White Rim Soup Bowl - Timo Sarpaneva personifies the great tradition of Scandinavian design in an almost unparalleled manner. His work is characterized by clarity and diversity, by aesthetics and functional value. Designs of compatibility, intended for coordination. Suomi is presumably the most often awarded shape in plain-white worldwide and in 1992 it was accepted into the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sarpaneva's design in inspired by the river pebble, smoothened by the continuous water flow. The service bears the name of his homeland: Suomi means Finland in the native language.