Terhi Pölkki Shoes are made locally in a small yet, modern family-owned factory in Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal. Terhi tells about her last visit to the factory in May. It’s May and once again time for a factory visit. Arriving to central Porto is like looking at a postcard,...
Finally, it is spring in town! A bright sun shines in Kallio which, is a popular district amongst creative young folks of Helsinki. Here also lives Terhi Pölkki, the owner and designer of Terhi Pölkki Shoes together with her man and dog Coco, a little black mixed breed dog that...
”Last spring I was walking on a street in Nolita, New York when, it suddenly popped into my mind: I wanted to dress my Fiona Babouches in Johanna Gullichsen’s Doris pattern. From the very first minute I knew I had to do it,” Terhi Pölkki explains how she came up with...
