Alvar Aalto Chair
The chair was designed by alvar aalto at the same time as the sanatorium and it was chosen for seating in various places including the sanatorium common room.
Alvar aalto chair. Sisustus ja huonekalumessut interior design and furniture exhibition were organized in helsinki september 11 19 1937. 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. 3 february 1898 11 may 1976 was a finnish architect and designer. During a long and prolific career aalto designed buildings for almost all key public institutions as well as standardised housing and private homes.
Today artek remains faithful to the aaltos basic values as their master. Alvar aalto made his international breakthrough as a furniture designer. Hugo alvar henrik aalto pronounced ˈhuɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto. 26 x 23 3 4 x 34 1 2 66 x 60 3 x 87 6 cm.
In 1935 alvar aalto together with aino aalto maire gullichsen and nils gustav hahl founded artek a world renowned furniture and lighting company. 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. Bent plywood bent laminated birch and solid birch. One of alvar aalto s first modern furniture designs chair 611 has been in continuous.
The chair was shown to the public for the first time at an exhibition of standard products held in conjunction with the nordic building forum in helsinki in 1932. Chair 611 can be easily reupholstered which means the chair can have many life cycles. Designed to offer comfort and practicality the fabric webbing yields to the sitter making the chair exceptionally comfortable. 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.
Gift of edgar kaufmann jr. Oy huonekalu ja rakennustyötehdas ab turku finland. The company was created to sell furniture designed by alvar aalto and to promote modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and other means. Chair 611 brings together a solid birch frame with a woven fabric seat and backrest.
An upholstered version of this chair was shown at this particular exhibition. The chair was given its present day lighter look in year 1947. Born hugo alvar henrik aalto february 3 1898 may 11 1976 in kuortane finland alvar aalto was noted for his humanistic approach to modernism. Alvar aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design.