22 December, 2007
Alvar Aalto: Father of Modernism
Alvar Aalto was born in 1898 in Kuortane in Finland and died in Helsinki 1976th He was a famous Finnish architect and furniture designer. Aalto studied architecture in Helsinki and graduated 1921st His career did not start particularly well in the Finnish capital, so he moved to a small town where he found an office.
He hired a young, female glass and furniture designer named Aino who later became his wife. Aino and Alvar had two children. Alvar Aalto worked in Finland to design the most famous landmarks in the 1920s - and 1930s. He was a teacher at MIT in the late 1940s. His most famous furniture includes several table designs and even his lamps are highly esteemed.
Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded a company that designed the furniture. Alvar Aalto designed many classic Aalto furniture Including dining tables, desks, sidstolar, living room chairs, stools, chairs and children's furniture. Alvar Aalto designed his first lights as a student at Helsinki University of Technology, where he won a lighting contest 1920th The name Aalto, is still much set the lighting and lampvärlden when he designed the more classic lampmodeller regarded as modern today as when he designed the it.
Alvar Aalto (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto) designed the first piece of furniture even before he graduated. He new architectural office received a large order to design furniture for six churches in Finland. In 1929 he designed the the famous Paimio Sanatorium and all furniture and lamps for it. He designed the customized Aalto tables and other furniture for all buildings.
At this time he began to patent their methods of bending wood and got right to the most patents in many countries for this new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture. Alvar Aalto 901 TEACART, along with many other chairs and Aalto table, is known for this construction of bent wood. Along with several other famous designers such as Bruno Mathsson and Yngve Ekström Aalto became famous for his style, which strongly contributed to the concept of "Scandinavisk Modern" design.
Alvar Aalto called his style "Organic functionalism" and Modernism father in the Nordic countries, he has left an obvious trace in the architecture and möbelformgivningens worlds. He and his wife also had some famous glass works forms such as the appropriate named Aalto vase. Perhaps it was his last honor creation of the Alvar Aalto Medal, the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Finnish Association of Architects, awarded for significant contribution to creative architecture.
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[...] He and his wife also had some famous glassware designs such as the aptly named Aalto Vase (Aalto vase). Perhaps his final female was the creation of the Alvar Aalto Medal by the Museum of Finnish [...]