Alvar Aalto (Archipocket) (English, French, German and Italian Edition) - Hardcover

Aalto, Alvar; Cuito, Aurora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3823855832 ISBN 13: 9783823855835

Publisher: Te Neues Pub Group, 2002

Synopsis

Alvar Aalto

Jyväskylä, 1898 - Helsinki, 1976.

If his first works as an architect (Library of Viipuri 1927-1935; Sanatorium of Piamio, 1928) were marked in the Modernist movement, then in the late thirties, with Villa Mairea (1938), for Mairea Gullichson, he began creating organic works with combined materials that fragmented or curved. In Helsinki (1935), as a furniture designer and part of the Artek foundation, he and his wife Aino Aalto and Mairea Gullichson began producing pieces like the stool with three legs, extraordinarily modest yet carefully treated.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Te Neues Pub Group
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3823855832
• ISBN 13: 9783823855835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 79