Alvar Aalto, an early 1950's made to order table / card table for O.Y. Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas A.B..
Bent solid birch and birch plywood. Tabletop with felt upholstery. Diameter 172 cm, height 72.5 cm.
Marks and stains on the tabletop. Wear due to age and use. Scratches.
(UPM) United Paper Mills Ltd, Myllykoski Paper Mill.
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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