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Alvar Aalto

(Finland, 1898-1976)
Estimate
300 - 400 EUR
3 380 - 4 510 SEK
316 - 422 USD
Hammer price
1 000 EUR
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Alvar Aalto
(Finland, 1898-1976)

AALTO VASE

Clear glass, engraved Alvar Aalto 73/1982. Blown to a wooden mould. The model is based on "Eskimoerindens skinnbuxa", the sketch series with which Aalto won the design competition of Karhula-Iittala glassworks in 1936. Height 36 cm.

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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