His furniture is noted for its use of laminated wood in ribbonlike forms that serve both structural and aesthetic ends.
Alvar aalto laminated wood.
The l leg came into being thanks to alvar aalto s adventures in wood bending techniques which were a new phenomena in the 1930s.
The paimio chair quickly became popular and was produced in large quantities.
Working papers alvar aalto researchers network march 12th 14th 2012 seinäjoki and jyväskylä finland wood and domestic architecture in aalto s work.
In 1935 aino and alvar aalto founded the finnish company artek to manufacture their designs.
Conceived as a variation on alvar aalto s earlier laminated wood cantilevered armchair the chair no.
It is made of bent laminated veneer and is the result of numerous bending trials using birch wood that is in part naturally damp.
Hugo alvar henrik aalto pronounced ˈhuɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto.
Designed to ease the breathing of a tubercular patient the paimio chair is beautiful enough to be sold to today s consumer.
Alvar experimented with a variety of construction materials including tubular steel but he made the most significant technical innovations using laminated materials such as birch and plywood.
With the help of furniture manufacturer otto korhonen aalto developed a combination of cutting and steaming local birch wood in order for it to become malleable.
The selection of the four houses 3.
406 was designed at the same time as he was working on the finnish pavilion for the 1939 new york world s fair and villa mairea a house for the industrialist harry gullichsen and his wife maire.
Hugo alvar hendrik aalto.
In 1935 the artek company was established by aalto and maire gullichsen the wife of the industrialist and art collector.
When one thinks of alvar aalto images of laminated wood and plywood furniture instantly spring to mind.
Based on the metal tube wassily chair designed in 1925 by marcel breuer aalto took laminated wood and bent it like breuer bent metal to form a frame in which was placed a bent wooden seat.
Today artek remains faithful to the aaltos basic values as their master.
A suspended ceiling hides the space to the audience but it allows the creation of the same deep post echo as tall church towers.
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.
3 february 1898 11 may 1976 was a finnish architect and designer.
Alvar aalto created in 1931 the paimio chair which was manufactured of bent plywood and laminated wood.
Aalto s experiments in furniture date from the early 1930s when he furnished the sanatorium at paimio.
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.
Alvar aalto made his international breakthrough as a furniture designer.
Bent laminated birch textile webbing.