Professor Kukkapuro is one of the most famous contemporary design masters in Northern Europe，who enjoys a high reputation in the international design industry and has won more than 20 international and domestic design awards. He was the first designer to introduce ergonomics into the design of the chair. His work the Karuselli chair was rated by the United Nations Product Management Organization as one of the "most important 99 designs of the 20th century" with its comfortable function. Kukkapuro's design style has always been hailed as concise, succinct, beautiful, architecturally exposed, without extra decoration. This style has become a model of contemporary Nordic minimalist design.