Alvar Aalto (Archipocket)

Aalto, Alvar Ajd Aurora Cuito

ISBN 10: 3823855832 / ISBN 13: 9783823855835

Published by Teneues Publishing Company, New York & Germany, 2002

About this Item

Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Photo illustrations throughout of Alvar Aalto's architecture and domestic designs. Small 8vo. 80 pp.

Seller Inventory # 80905

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alvar Aalto (Archipocket)
• Publisher: Teneues Publishing Company, New York & Germany
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3823855832
• ISBN 13: 9783823855835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

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.

From the Publisher

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