Alvar Aalto, a pendant lamp A332, 'Beehive' for Valaistustyö.
Frame stamped with wrong model number A335A. White painted metal shade and brass fittings. Manufacturer's stamp. Height c. 35 cm. Total height 108 cm.
Wear due to age and use. Dent. Colour loss. Re-wired. Electrical function not tested.
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Bukowskis presents a selection of objects by the power couple of Finnish design, Alvar and Aino Aalto. The couple worked both separately and collaboratively as equal partners. They believed in the principle of total design and strived to connect art with technology. The Aaltos founded their own furniture company, Artek, in 1935, which core ideas were based on investment in material, research, quality, and sustainability.
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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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