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Mine Furniture By Mati Karmin
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Using these old and discarded shells of formerly destructive weapons, Karmin has created a collection of work that translates a piece of history in Estonia into tangible art.
Naissaar (German: Nargen; Swedish: Nargö) is an island northwest of Tallinn (but belonging to Viimsi Parish) in Estonia. It held a large Swedish minority until World War II, and during Soviet rule it was a military area and off-limits to the public.
A notable native of the island was Bernhard Schmidt, the Swedish-Estonian optician who invented the Schmidt telescope in 1930.
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