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ALVAR AALTO...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD
ALVAR AALTO...
ALVAR AALTO
AN EARLY CANTILEVERED CHAIR
CA. 1933-1935
manufactured by Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyotehdas for the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium
molded laminated black-painted birch, stepped birch legs
stained with the cipher of the mark from the Paimio Sanatorium
25 1/4 in. (64 cm) high <P>ESTIMATE: $20,000-25,000 <P>PROVENANCE
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Finland <P>LITERATURE
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER, Vammala, 2002, p. 70 <p>Aalto won the first prize in early 1929 for the design of the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium in southwest Finland. The sanatorium was inaugurated in 1933. The building was a different approach to the international modernist school's "rectangular functionalism," especially the architecture of the Bauhaus. "The different parts of the building are divided up by function, spreading across the site in freely grouped volumes that converged at the entrance - an ingenious touch that gives the vast complex a human scale" (Pirkko Tuukkanen, ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER, Vammala, 2002, p. 47). <p>The Aaltos were also hired to design the furniture, lighting, door handles and many other fixtures and fittings, putting Aalto's philosophy of integrated, comprehensive design into practice. The sanatorium attracted international interest with visits by leading designers from the Bauhaus.
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