Alvar Aalto
ALVAR AALTO, PAIR OF ARMCHAIRS NO 31 AND TABLE NO 70. Chairs designed for Paimio Sanatorium in 1932.
Seat of bent birch plywood, side supports of laminated birch. Height 68 cm. Table diameter 72 cm.
Tavanomaista kulumaa, renovated.
Provenance
Acquired to Kauhava to the Finnish Air Force training school in the 1930s.
More information
This item is collected at Iso Roobertinkatu 12 Helsinki after the auction has ended.
Designer
Alvar Aalto is one of Finland's most prominent architects and designers and one of Scandinavia's biggest proponents of modern architecture and design. Several of the furniture and vases he designed are today considered iconic design classics, including the Savoy vases, the Beehive lamp, and Armchair, model '31'.Alvar Aalto is the most internationally famous Finnish architect and designer. Aalto was a great ambassador for Finnish design at a time when the Finnish people were thinking about how to present themselves to the rest of the world. He gave equal weight to form and function, and was inspired by the Finnish landscape. Aalto is one of the most important representatives of modern architecture and has created its own architecture direction, whose aesthetic effect is based on careful planning of the buildings in relation to the environment, a human dimension and good sense of material.
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