22 December, 2007
Alvar Aalto: Modernism father
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 was working in Finland with designing most famous landmarks in 1920 - and 1930's. He was a professor at MIT in the late 1940s. His most famous furniture includes the majority of table designs and even his lamps are highly revered.
Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded a company that designed the furniture. Alvar Aalto designed the more classic Aalto furniture Including dining tables, desks, sidstolar, lounge chairs, stools, chairs and children's furniture. Alvar Aalto designed the first of their lights as a student at Helsinki University of Technology , where he won a lighting contest 1920th The name Aalto is still highly precious in lighting and lampvärlden when he designed the more classic lampmodeller regarded as modern today as when he created them.
Alvar Aalto ( http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto ) designed the first piece of furniture even before he graduated. He new architecture office received a large order to design furniture for six churches in Finland. 1929 he designed the famous Paimio Sanatorium and all furniture and lamps for it. He designed custom Aalto tables and other furniture for all buildings.
At this time he began to patent their techniques to bend wood and got right to the majority of patents in many countries for this new form of laminated bent plywood furniture. Alvar Aalto 901 tea-trolley, 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 was Aalto, famous for its style which strongly contributed to the concept "Scandinavian Modern" design.
Alvar Aalto called his style "Organic functionalism" and as the father of Modernism in the Nordic countries, he has left a clear mark on architecture and möbelformgivningens worlds. He and his wife also had some famous glass works forms so that the appropriate named Aalto vase. Perhaps it was his last honor the 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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