Aalto Alvar Furniture
Aalto wished to learn the language of wood fibres and believed that there is a positive effect when our skin comes into contact with natural materials.
Aalto alvar furniture. A forefather of scandinavian modernism alvar aalto s furniture is instantly recognizable for their curvaceous bentwood frames with his architect wife aino by his side alvar aalto created stop and stare pieces like the 402 lounger and paimio chair. Today artek remains faithful to the aaltos basic values as their master. An architect and designer alvar aalto deserves an immense share of the credit for bringing scandinavian modernism to a prominent place in the global arena.
Alvar and aino aalto maire gullichsen and nils gustav hahl. Aino and alvar aalto s savoy restaurant in helsinki restored after 80 years. 3 february 1898 11 may 1976 was a finnish architect and designer.
Bend the rules with alvar aalto. Ilse crawford and her eponymous studio worked with finnish furniture brand artek to carry out a sensitive. Artek was founded in helsinki in 1935 by four young idealists.
In both his buildings and in his furnishings which range from chairs tables and lighting to table and glassware aalto s sensitivity to the natural world and to organic forms and materials tempered the hardness of rationalist. His work includes architecture furniture textiles and glassware as well as sculptures and paintings he never regarded himself as an artist seeing painting and sculpture as branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture. In 1935 aino and alvar aalto founded the finnish company artek to manufacture their designs.