ALVAR AALTO, a prototype lamp made by Viljo Hirvonen in 1950s.
A prototype pulpit reading lamp for The Church of the Three Crosses in Vuoksenniska, Imatra. Painted aluminum. Length 26 cm. Height c. 24 cm.
Wear and marks due to age and use.
Architect Jaakko Kontio (1924-2016). He worked as office manager at Aalto Aalto's architect studio during 1954-1960.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaakko_Kontio
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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