Alvar Aalto
AN ALVAR AALTO NATURAL LACQUERED BIRCH WITH WHITE CERAMIC TILES AND RATTAN BASKET TEA TROLLEY, model 900, Artek, Finland
White wheels. Model originally designed in 1937. Length 91, width 65, height 59 cm.
Wear, minor damages. Slightly unsteady. Handle somewhat loose. White tiles with craquelures/cracks. One black rubber list on wheel loose. Outer edges of table top with minor wear and scratches. Rattan basket with insignificant damages. Base and wheels with minor scratches and dents.
Provenance
Acquired at Nordiska galleriet, Stockholm in the early 1970's.
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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