Germund Paaer was Kalevala Koru's first chief designer. It can be said that Kalevala Koru was, at the beginning, as much Paaer's creation as it was that of the company's founding women. He was responsible for Kalevala Koru's design until 1950, during which time he designed hundreds of different pieces of jewelry for the company.
His guiding principle was: "The edges of the jewelry must be perfectly smooth. A woman's sensitive fingers touch them, and they must not have any unevenness, and they must under no circumstances be sharp!" Germund Paaer was a talented, enthusiastic, and very prolific, yet modest artist. Of the jewelry he designed, the most popular of all time is Kuutar, which has been produced since the mid-1940s. Other pieces of his jewelry still in the collection include Salt-sydän and Teljänneito. In addition to jewelry, in the 1940s he designed over 120 wooden decorative objects that were in Kalevala Koru's production, the models for which he created based on old peasant objects.
