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Alvar Aalto

(Finland, 1898-1976)
Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
530 - 706 EUR
552 - 737 USD
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Alvar Aalto
(Finland, 1898-1976)

An Alvar Aalto 'model 401' easy chair by O.y Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas A.B, for Artek, Finland probably 1940's.

Base of beech, upholstered in red. Stamped 808 (?) underneath.

Wear, mounts missing in the front underneath.

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Designed in 1947.

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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