A chair and two stools, Artek, Finland mid-20th and latter half of the 20th Century.
Lacquered birch. One stool with faux leather seat, the other stool and the chair with laminate surface seat. height to seat 44 cm. Back height of the chair 66 cm.
Veneer defect in the chair. The stools with stains, marks, wear and a minor hole.
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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