Curriculum Vitae
Toivo Raidmets
Interior architect, Estonian Society of Interior Architects (ESIA), Estonian Association of
Designers (EAD)
Professional portfolio book http://issuu.com/sisearhitektuur/docs/raidmets
1955 born in Põltsamaa, Estonia
1982 interior architect, Estonian State Art Institute
Employment history
1978
1982–1987
1987–1991
Furniture Factory “Standard”, designer
Tartu Mööblikombinaat (Tartu Furniture Factory), head designer
Tallinna Kunstitoodete Kombinaat (Tallinn Art Products Factory) ARS, interior designer freelance artist
Head of the Department of Interior Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts
1991–1995
1995–…
Awards
1986
1989
1995
Exhibition of Office Furniture, Moscow
Gold medal
ACTA ’87, exhibition of Estonian Applied Art and Design
1987 design concept and design (with Eero Jürgenson)
Estonian Society of Interior Architects (ESIA) annual award
International design exhibition “Ruum ja vorm V”, (Space and Form V)
Tallinn
Grand Prix
Interior design of the night club “Bonnie & Clyde” in the Olympia Hotel,
1999
Tallinn
ESIA annual award
Table “Tea” manufacturer OÜ TOIVO

2004
ESIA annual award
Chair “John” manufacturer OÜ TOIVO
ESIA annual award
Interior design
1986
1989
1991
1992
1993
1995
1996
1996
1997
1999
2003
2004
2005
2007
2008
2008-2010
2010
Exhibition design
1986
1987
1987
Administrative building of Tartu Agrotööstuskompleks (Agriculture
Industry Complex)
Administrative building of Tartu Autoveod (Haulage)
Restaurant “Eeslitall” (with Taso Mähar), Tallinn
Rooms of the Tartu Song Festival Grounds
Cafe “Kawe”, Tartu
Night club “Bonnie & Clyde” in the Olympia Hotel, Tallinn
Restaurant “Karl Friedrich”, Tallinn
“Kalev” yacht club, Tallinn
Aare Raig Law Office, Tallinn
Night club “Flamingo”, Tallinn
Tartu office of the Estonian Writers’ Union
Viinistu Art Museum restaurant
Hotel “Mihkli”, Tallinn
Hall of the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu
Viinistu Chapel (Chamber Hall)
Artists’ Club “Kuku”, Tallinn
Hotel Kalev Spa interior design
Exhibition of young designers “Aeg ja koht” (Time and Place),
(with Jüri Kermik)
Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
Katrin and Peeter Pere’s exhibition
Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
Signe Kivi and Jaak Arro’s exhibition
Tallinn Art Hall Gallery

1987
1988
1989
1992
1995
2009
2010
2010
2013
Exhibition of Estonian Applied Art and Design ACTA ’87
(with Eero Jürgenson)
Tallinn Art Hall
Exhibition of young artists “Ma pole kunagi käinud New Yorgis” (I have never been to New York)
(with Eero Jürgenson)
Tallinn Song Festival Grounds
International design exhibition “Ruum ja vorm V” (Space and Form V)
Tallinn Exhibition Centre
Baltic Applied Art
Hamburg
Exhibition of kinetic art “Mobile 1”
Tallinn Art Hall
Milano Furniture Fair – design of the EKA (Estonian Academy of Arts) exposition
Estonian Exhibitions, design of the EKA exposition
Habitare Furniture Fair, design of the EKA exposition
Stockholm Furniture Fair, design and formation of the EKA exposition
2013
2014
Exhibitions
1986
1986
1987
1987
Tallinn Light Biennale – installation „Ladder”
Stockholm Furniture Fair, design of the EKA exposition
Exhibition of young members of the Estonian Artists’ Association
Estonian Exhibition Centre, Tallinn
Exhibition of young designers “Aeg ja koht” (Time and Place)
Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
Art Design from Tallinn
Vilnius
Overview exhibition of art from Soviet Estonia
Moscow
1987
1988
Exhibition of Estonian Applied Art and Design ACTA ’87
Tallinn Art Hall
Exhibition of young artists “Ma pole kunagi käinud New Yorgis” (I have never been to New York),
Tallinn
1989 “A Chair is a Chair”
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn

1989
1989
1990
1992
1992
1992
International design exhibition “Ruum ja vorm V” (Space and Form V)
Tallinn Exhibition Centre
Group exhibition with Epp-Maria Kokamägi, Signe Kivi, Siim-Tanel
Annus, Jaak Arro and Mari Kursimaa
Tallinn Art Hall
“Eesti maastikud” (Estonian Landscapes) (with Vilen Künnapu, Leonhard
Lapin, Eero Jürgenson, Andres Siim and Hanno Kreis)
Esplanade, Helsinki, Finland
Baltic Applied Art (with Taso Mähar)
Hamburg, Germany
Mare Balticum (with Kristaps Gelzis and Deimantas Narkevičius)
Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
Annual exhibition of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts “Unexistent
Art”, Tallinn Art Hall
1994
1995
2000
Rauma Biennale Balticum
Rauma, Finland
Exhibition of kinetic art “Mobile 1”,
Tallinn Art Hall
Design Forum
Saint-Etienne, France
2001
2004
2005
Baltic Design
Copenhagen, Denmark
Exhibition “Designmai”, Berlin
Personal exhibition “Barokist Dadani” (From Baroque to Dada), Museum of
Estonian Arcitecture
2008 Group exhibition with Tiit Pääsuke, Mare Tralla, Peeter Alliku, Peep
Pedmanson, Ave Nahkur and Viive Väljaots
Põltsamaa, Estonia
2013 Personal exhibition in the Design and Architecture Gallery, Tallinn
2013
2013
2014
(with graphic artist Jaanika Peerna)
Tallinn Light Biennale – installation “Ladder”
Design Night
Personal exhibition “27 Chairs“ in the Design and Architecture Gallery,
Tallinn
Installations:

1989
1989
1989
1991
1991
1991
1993
1993
1994
1994
1992
1995
Object design:
1985
1986
1989
1989
1989
1989
1989
1989
1986
1987
1988
1988
1989-1992
1990
1992
Light object
“
Ladder”, aluminium profile, neon pipes, 40 x 240 cm
Installation
“
Vitality”, pine, neon pipes, 110 x 700 x 40 cm
Panel
“
Iron Fence”, co-author Jaak Arro, pine, steel, paint, burn, 230 x 1750 cm
Advertising object for Young Artists’ Exhibition designer of stages and urban space at jazz music festival Fiesta in Pärnu, co-authors
Eero Jürgenson and Taso Mähar, – advertising object in Kalevi Street (1989),
Beach House landart object
“ Vallikäär II” (1990)etc.
Installation
“
Burning Stack of Boards” 90 x 110 x 580 cm
Installation
“
Red Wall”, neon pipes, transformers, 340 x 1100 cm (in the collection of Nordic Art Center);
“ Blue cube”, neon pipes, transformers 320 x 320 x 240 cm
(in the collection of Nordic Art Center)
Installation
“
Motor-car ZIM and Green Neon Carpet”
Neon installation
“
Kiss”, neon, plastic, 38 x 80 cm
Lounge chair
“ Z”, Tartu Furniture Factory
Table
“
Berjosha”
Chair
“
Intestine-Tripod”, steel pipe, imitation astrakan
Chair
“
No 1”, steel sheet, plastic, rubber
Steel shelf, 100 x 220 x 36 mm, angle iron, glass
Steel shelf 2, 100 x 220 x 36 mm, angle iron, glass
Chair
“
Low Flagellate”, (in the collections of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design), steel pipe, nylon rope
Chair
“ High Flagellate”, (in the collections of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design), steel pipe, nylon rope
Chair
“
Loaf”, designed for the restaurant „Karl Friedrich” in 1996, pine, steel pipe
Chair
“ Peil”, ash, steel pipe, bronze
“
Lib-lik”, designed for the cafe Kawe in Tartu, steel pipe, pine
Chair
“
Step 1”, designed for the basement bar at the restaurant Eeslitall
Chair
“ Step 2”, designed for the basement bar at the restaurant Eeslitall
Chair
“
Horn”, designed for the basement bar at the restaurant Eeslitall
Clothes stand
“
Cactus”
Chair
“ Liblik 2”
Table
“
Mercury”
Installation at Rauma Biennale

1999
2004
2004
2004
2007
2010
2010
2010
2010
2012
2012
2012
2012
2013
2013
Table
“ TEA”
Chair “Mart”, designed for a restaurant in Viinistu, named after my son on his birth
Chair “Mart 2”, birch, leather belts
Chair “John”, designed for a restaurant in Viinistu, named in memory of a good friend John Wasastjerna who died too young; steel pipe, timber, coarse rope
Chair “Kraps”, designed for the Viinistu Chamber Hall
Chair “Poi”, designed for „Kuku” Club
Chair “Quay”, designed for „Kuku” Club
Seat “Kiki”, designed for the sauna terrace at my summerhouse
Seat “Tripod”
Chair “Gerrit“, a small flirt with Gerrit Rietveld’s creation
Clothes stand “Mari”
Clothes stand “Nail”
Clothes stand “Z”
Seat “Tripod 2”
Urban furniture – seat series: “Seat I” – “Seat VI”
2013
2013
2013
2013
2014
Sledge
Chair “Pedro”, designed for the modular furniture series “LESS” (authors
Timo Subbi, Kard Männil, Loreida Hein).
Chair “Deal”
Clothes stand “Rake”
Chair “Cut”
Architectural objects
1994-1998
2004-2008
2013
Works in collections
Private residence (arch. Eugen Haabermann) at Vaikne 3, Tallinn, reconstruction project and interior design
Summer-house with outbuildings in Turbuneeme, Harju county, construction project and interior design
Garden house with covered terrace (Vaikne 3, Tallinn), architectural project and interior design
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design – chairs “Mart”, “Low Flagellate”
Museum of Estonian Architecture – Table “Berjoschka”, chair “High Flagellate”

Publications, articles, lectures
Toivo Raidmets „Toivo Raidmets”, professional portfolio book, editor Leele Välja, Tallinn,
Estonian Academy of Arts, 2011
Toivo Raidmets “Leebelt lennukas Yrjö Kukkapuro”, Maja 1-2013
Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences, Soome, “Estonian interior architecture and its studies in the Estonian Academy of Arts”, 7.02.2014
Väimela Vocational Education Centre, lecture “Trends in furniture design on the examples of
Köln and Stockholm Furniture Fairs”, 26.02.2014
Articles and reproductions:
1988 Kunst ja kodu 57/88 Krista Kodres „Uitmõtteid ruumikunstist” (ateljee Tartu
Mööblikombinaadis; Jüri Kermik „Noor disain – uus disain?” E.Jürgenson, T.Raidmtes, fragment
Pärnu džässifestivali kujundusest, 1987; E.Jürgensoni, T.Raidmetsa, L.Meigase grupinäitus
Vilniuses, 1987; Galerii: T.Raidmets „Lauad” 1987, T.Raidmets „Valgusobjekt peegliga” 1986.)
1989 Kunst ja kodu 58/89 Mart Kalm „ACTA`87 – Dreamland Kunstihoones”, photo 30 „Riiul” photo 33 Laud „Sebra”
1989 Noorte Hääl No 299 20.12.1989 „Ruum ja vorm” Sinises paviljonis
1990 Helsingin Sanomat 31. Elokuuta 1990 „Öinen Helsinki kuhisi kulttuuria”, photo Toivo
Raidmetsin teoksen nimikylttiä tiirailtiin Espan puistossa.
1990 Kunst ja kodu 59/90 „Ruum ja vorm V” – fragment of a competition project – winning entry
1991 Kunst 76/1 Krista Kodres „Ruum ja vorm V” – photo: Toivo Raidmetsa mööbel
1992 Nordiskt Konstcentrum No 2 1992 Info „Vandringsutställningar 1992-93” Mare Balticum,
Röda väggen, 1992
1992 Siksi 3/92 Nordic Art Review lk 27 Contemporary Art from the Baltic countries „Mare
Balticum”, photo: Red Wall 1992
1992 Helsingin Sanomat 8. Elokuuta 1992 Anu Uimonen „Taiteen Baltia on jo osa Pohjolaa”, photo: Toivo Raidmets „Punaninen seinä” –neonteoksensa hohteessa.
1994 Kunst 1/1994 Näitused foto „Aine-aineta” näituse „visiitkaart” Toivo Raidmetsa „ZIM ja roheline neoonvaip” Kunstihoone ees
1995 Kunst 1/1995 Ants Juske „Rauma Biennale Balticum`94”, photo: Installatsioon Rauma biennaalil.
1996 Eesti Päevaleht 10.08.1996 Kertu Saks „Tipparhitekt ei mõtle moest, vaid kunstist”, photo:
Tallinna ööklubi BonniejaClyde sisekujundus
1996 Eesti Ekspress No 12 22.03.1996 Barbi Pilvre „Raidmets. Toivo Raidmets”, photos: Tool
Tartu kohvikus Kawe 1990, Laud 1994, Redel 1986
1996 Eesti Ekspress No 50 13.12.1996 Ülo Jalakas „Karl Friedrich Toivo Raidmetsa kaisus”

2000 Eesti Ekspress Areen 6.04.2000 Ene Läkk „ Soov olla üksi ja alasti” (Ene Läkk interviews interior architect Toivo Raidmets who was given the 1999 form award of the Estonian Society of
Interior Architects for coffe tables “Tea”), photos: diivanilaud „TEA”, laud „Merkuur”, tool
„Soolikas-kolmjalg”
2000 Maja 1/2000 Coffee tables “TEA”
2004 Designmai 2004 No 2, International Designfestival, p 26, photo: chair „John”
2005 Eramu ja korter 5/2005 Karin Paulus „Oma põlvkonna maskottdisainer”, pp 42-44, photos
Paco Ulman
2005 Eesti Ekspress Areen No 45 10.11.2005 Karin Paulus „Eesti haisuga disain”, pp B2-B3, photos Tiit Veermäe, Jüri Seljamaa
2005 Eesti Päevaleht 19.11.2005 „Tooli teekond barokist dadani ja kitšist minimalismini”, pp 20-
21
2007 Ruumipilt, pp 132-133, aastapreemia nominent tool „Kraps”
2012 Maja 1-2012 Uus disain, p 41, Tool: Must, nagi: Z; new books, p 69, Triin Ojari „Toivo
Raidmets”
2012 MEIE KODU 2012 No 3 Aili Ermel „Toivo Raidmetsa modernne suvekodu”
2013 Eesti Päevaleht 28.02. „Pinkidest linnaga ja linnata” Text: Tanel Veenre, Photos: Eero
Vabamägi, Tanel Veenre
2013 Meie kodu 3/2013, p 75, „Milline paadisild valida?”, photo Toomas Tuul
2013 Postimees Arter 12.10.2013 Tiina Kolk „Eestiaegsuse elegantne esitlus”, pp 18-19, photos
Liis Treimann
2014 Postimees No 53 5.03.2014, pp 14-15, Tiina Kolk „27 tooli – veerandsajandi paremad palad”, photos Peeter Langovitš
2014 Sirp No 9 7.03.2014, p 32, Leonhard Lapin „Tool on tool on tool”, photos Toomas Tuul
2014 Sirp No 9 7.03.2014, p 33, Mart Kalm „Paks ja peenike. Toivo Raidmetsa toolid”, photo
Toomas Tuul
2014 Diivan February 2014, chair „John”
To be published
2014 Meie Kodu No 2 Aili Ermel „Vaikne elu vaiksel tänaval”
2014 Ruumipilt 2013 aastapreemia nominendid tool „Pedro”, tool „Deal”, iste „Kraps”, näitusekujundus Toivo Raidmetsa ja Jaanika Peerna näitusele „Park” Arhitektuuri ja disainigaleriis
Broadcasts

1989 ETV short film – „Grupinäitus Kunstihoones Epp-Maria Kokamägi, Signe Kivi, Siim-Tanel
Annuse, Jaak Arro ja Mari Kurismaaga” (Group exhibition in Art Hall with Epp-Maria Kokamägi,
Signe Kivi, Siim-Tanel Annus, Jaak Arro ja Mari Kurismaa)
1990 ETV short film – „Disainer Toivo Raidmets” (Designer Toivo Raidmets)
1991 ETV short film – „Eesti kaasaegne kunst. Toivo Raidmets” (Estonian contemporary art.
Toivo Raidmets)
2005 Kanal2 Ingrid Sembach-Sakias „Toivo Raidmets Soolalaos” (Toivo Raidmets in Salt Cellar)
2013 27.02.13 Klassikaraadio M.Järvi „Raidmetsa ja Peerna näitus Park” (Raidmets’s and
Peerna’s exhibition Park)
2013 Raadio2 19.10.13 Kristo Rajasaare „Elu edetabelid – Toivo Raidmets” (Life’s charts - Toivo
Raidmets)
2014 Vikerraadio 09.03.2014 Vestlussaade Toivo Raidmetsaga (Talk show with Toivo Raidmets)
Membership
1990
1995
1996
2006
2007
2010
2010
2011
Estonian Artists’ Association
Estonian Society of Interior Architects
Board of Governors of the Museum of Estonian Architecture
Advisory Committee of the Estonian Society of Interior Architects
Member of an expert committee of the applied higher education study programme “Design“ of the Social-Humanitarian Institute (an institution of applied higher education) of the Ministry of Education and Research
Member of the Board of Governors of the Rotermann Salt Cellar
Estonian Association of Designers
Member of a new product committee of the furniture factory Tarmeko
2012
2014
Member of the professional committee of the Estonian Society of Interior
Architects
Member of the management committee of the international MASTERS’
FORTNIGHT WORKSHOP