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.
Alvar aalto furniture.
Ilse crawford and her eponymous studio worked with finnish furniture brand artek to carry out a sensitive.
Artek was founded in helsinki in 1935 by four young idealists.
In 1935 alvar aalto and his wife aino founded the finnish company artek to manufacture their interior designs.
In 1935 alvar aalto together with aino aalto maire gullichsen and nils gustav hahl founded artek a world renowned furniture and lighting company.
3 february 1898 11 may 1976 was a finnish architect and designer.
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In 1935 aino and alvar aalto founded the finnish company artek to manufacture their designs.
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His contribution to furniture design was among his foremost achievements in its own right.
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.
Alvar aalto finnish architect city planner and furniture designer whose international reputation rests on a distinctive blend of modernist refinement indigenous materials and personal expression in form and detail.
The company was created to sell furniture designed by alvar aalto and to promote modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and other means.
Aalto wished to learn the language of wood fibres and believed that there is a positive effect when our skin comes into contact with natural materials.
Aino and alvar aalto s savoy restaurant in helsinki restored after 80 years.
His mature style is epitomized by the säynätsalo fin town hall group.
In both his buildings and in his furnishings which range from chairs tables and lighting to table and glassware aalto s sensitivity to the natural world and to organic forms and materials tempered the hardness of rationalist.
Today artek remains faithful to the aaltos basic values as their master craftspeople continue to produce aalto designs in finland with high quality natural materials.
Alvar aalto made his international breakthrough as a furniture designer.
Hugo alvar henrik aalto pronounced ˈhuɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto.
In fact aalto first achieved fame in continental europe as a furniture designer and only later as an architect.