Elli Ruuth
{{short description|Finnish architect (1883-1975)}}
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Elli Ruuth (1893 – 1975) was a Finnish furniture architect. She was active in 1924 – 1952.{{Cite web |title=Historia |url=https://www.architecta.fi/yhdistys/historia/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=Architecta |language=fi}}{{Cite thesis|last=Saarikangas |first=Kirsi |type=PhD thesis|year=1993 |title=Model houses for model families : gender, ideology and the modern dwelling: the type-planned houses of the 1940s in Finland|url=https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/170175/SH045_opt.pdf?sequence=1|series=Studia Historica|volume=45|publisher=Suomen Historiallinen Seura|issn=0081-6493 |isbn=951-8915-65-2|translator1-last=Landon|translator1-first=Philip|translator2-last=Snellman|translator2-first=Tomi}}
Works
Ruuth designed furniture for various state and municipal buildings.{{Cite web |date=2014-01-07 |title=Viipurin käskynhaltijan palatsista Heinolan kautta Kuopioon |url=https://juristiuutiset.fi/viipurin-kaskynhaltijan-palatsista-heinolan-kautta-kuopioon/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=Juristiuutiset}} According to Architecta, the Finnish association of women architects, her "most brilliant" works were the interiors of the Finnish embassy in Moscow and {{ill|Villa Baumgartner|fi}} in Helsinki.
Finnish Association of Women Architects
In 1919, Elli Ruuth together with Elsa Arokallio, Elsi Borg, Salme Setälä, Eva Kuhlefeld and Aili-Salli Ahde-Kjäldman, was part of the founding group of the Tumstocken association and then the Finnish Association of Women Architects.{{Cite web |title=J. S. Sirén |url=https://www.mfa.fi/kokoelmat/arkkitehdit/j-s-siren/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=Arkkitehtuurimuseo |language=fi}}
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