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Alvar aalto chair dimensions.
Hugo alvar henrik aalto pronounced ˈhuɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto.
The chairs have a birch plywood frame and beige gray fa.
Alvar aalto made his international breakthrough as a furniture designer.
It is made of bent laminated veneer and is the result of numerous bending trials using birch wood that is in part naturally damp.
Combining a traditional outline with a light organic form this revolutionary interpretation of the club chair set new standards in modern furniture design.
An architect and designer alvar aalto deserves an immense share of the credit for bringing scandinavian modernism to a prominent place in the global arena.
Bent plywood bent laminated birch and solid birch.
Armchair 41 was created as part of the paimio sanatorium s overall project led by aalto.
His work includes architecture furniture textiles and glassware as well as sculptures and paintings he never regarded himself as an artist seeing painting and sculpture as branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture.
Its lightness and structural genius are without compare.
Artek s armchair 41 also known as the paimio chair is one of the most beautiful chairs designed by alvar aalto.
Gift of edgar kaufmann jr.
This chair was purchased in the 1970s.
Aalto wished to learn the language of wood fibres and believed there was a positive effect that happens when our skin comes into contact with natural materials.
26 x 23 3 4 x 34 1 2 66 x 60 3 x 87 6 cm.
Instead of using traditional metal tubes aalto wanted to use something warmer and.
Designed by alvar aalto in 1932 armchair 41 was created for the interior of a tuberculosis sanatorium in the finnish city of paimio and is considered one of aalto s masterpieces.
Great wingback lounge chair model 401 designed by alvar aalto for artek finland 1933.
Created by design visionary alvar aalto in 1939 this armchair is affectionately referred to as the pension chair because it allows the user to be in a state of retirement.
3 february 1898 11 may 1976 was a finnish architect and designer.
Alvar aalto created in 1931 the paimio chair which was manufactured of bent plywood and laminated wood.
The cantilevered birch frame solid birch cross rails and linen webbed seat create a chair made for total comfort and relaxation.
