Product sheet Early cantilevered chair
Designer:
Alvar Aalto
Manufacturer:
Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyotehdas
Alvar Aalto
Manufacturer:
Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyotehdas
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).
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.
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
Provenance:
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Finland
Literature:
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER, Vammala, 2002, p. 70
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.
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
Provenance:
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Finland
Literature:
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER, Vammala, 2002, p. 70
estimated value:
20.000-25.000 US$
Auction:
19-20th Century Design Art
Sales date: 2002-12-11
location: New York
Lot number: 51
20.000-25.000 US$
Auction:
19-20th Century Design Art
Sales date: 2002-12-11
location: New York
Lot number: 51
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