Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto, a 1962 writing desk made to order O.Y. Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas A.B.
Made to order for Enso-Gutzeit head office building. Oak. HL2 legs and one drawer unit. Length 170 cm. Width 80 cm. Height 69 cm.
Wear and marks due to age and use. Later paintwork on the front panel, tabletop, and drawer. Veneer damages. Drill holes.
Provenance
Stora Enso’s (Enso-Gutzeit) former head office building in Katajanokka, Helsinki
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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