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Interior designer
Elina Amann, last edited on 24.10.2022
Name:
Juta Lember
Life Dates:
b. 1943
Country:
Employers:
Furniture production company Standard (1968 – 1973)
Eesti Project (1975 – 1980)
Ars (1980 – 1992)
LLP
Lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts
Field of expertise:
Interior design
Education:
Awards:
Estonian Cultural Foundation Annual Prize for Architecture (2002; 2011)
Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Annual Award for Architecture (2005)
Juta Lember was born in Tallinn on 29 April 1943. She went to the Estonian State Art Institute from 1963 and graduated in 1969 in interior architecture and furniture design.
While still a student, she began working for the furniture production company Standard in 1968, until she moved to Eesti Projekt, where she was involved in projects from 1975-80. Later she worked at Ars and became a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Her projects range from cultural institutions and office buildings to the interiors of religious buildings. One of her best-known works is the Estonia Hall of the Estonian National Opera, which she designed together with Aulo Padar. Other cultural centres such as the Paatsalu Polymer Recreation Centre, the Pirita Sailing Sports Centre and several sports and swimming halls were designed by her as well.
Lember was entrusted with the task of designing and furnishing the office of the President of the Republic after the Soviet period. In doing so, she developed a space that reflects the historical past in itself, but also represents Estonian independence. This outstanding work earned her the Estonian Cultural Foundation’s Annual Prize for Architecture in 2002.
In 2005, Lember received the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Annual Award for Architecture for the interior design of the Estonia Golf & Country Club.
The interior designer also designed the rooms of the manor house in the northern municipality of Viimsi. Outside her home country, she was commissioned to design the interior of St. John’s Church, an Estonian Protestant church in St. Petersburg. The interior was adapted to modern life and can be used for religious purposes as well as for small concerts. In 2011, Lember was again honoured with the Estonian Cultural Foundation’s Annual Prize for Architecture for this design and its orientation towards contemporary demands.
Main image: Author not attributed in typewritten form. Presumably Epp (copyright statement) – Source not cited in machine-readable form. Presumed to be the work of the uploader (copyright statement), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79285072 (last accessed 24.10.2022)
Fig. 1: By VilleHoo from helsinki, Finland – Estonia opera, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4149389 (last accessed 24.10.2022)
Fig. 2: By Vaido Otsar – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57895141 (last accessed 24.10.2022)
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