Fazer Café Kluuvikatu

This guide to Fazer Cafe Kluuvikatu in Helsinki opens with a small discrepancy: the story says Karl Fazer opened his confectionery here in eighteen ninety-one with his wife Berta, yet he did not marry her until three years later. It follows the twenty-five-year-old Fazer through his training in Berlin, Paris, and Saint Petersburg, and the building's growth into the seven-story Art Deco facade designed by Gosta Juslen. You'll hear how families tend to smooth an origin story in the retelling. Look closely at the hand-carved plaster and marble at the entrance while you listen.