Salme Setälä

Salme Setälä (from 1919–1930 Cornér; 18 January 1894, Helsinki — 6 October 1980, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and writer. She graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1917. She worked in a number of architecture offices. In the early 1950s she made several study trips in Europe. After that she was hired in the government office for land-use planning. She planned the land use for over 30 areas in Finland.^[1]

Salme Setälä (left), Helvi Erjakka [fi], Eeva Joenpelto and Sylvi Kekkonen in 1962

Setälä's main interest was interior design and furniture. She also wrote books, both fiction and non-fiction.^[1] Her parents were Eemil Nestor Setälä and Helmi Krohn, and she was of Baltic German descent through her maternal grandfather Julius Krohn.^[2][3] From 1919–1930 she was married to the journalist Frithiof Cornér, and the painter, graphic artist and illustrator Helmiriitta Honkanen [fi] was their daughter.