Alvar Aalto Furniture (ed. Juhani Pallasmaa)is a comprehensive book about Aalto’s furniture designs and their design philosophy. The book was co-published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Society of Crafts and Design and the design company Artek in 1984. According to Pallasmaa, Alvar Aalto’s furniture is “a superb example of the uncompromising spirit that has managed to overcome the barriers of style and taste, fashion and social class”.
The book contains expert articles by Igor Herler, architectural historian, Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto biographer, and Marja Liisa Parko, interior architect. There are also a chapter about fixed furniture in Aalto’s architecture co-edited by Elissa Aalto and Marja-Riitta Norri, and excerpts from Aalto’s own writings about furniture design. The richly illustrated book also includes a chronology of mass-produced furniture and a selection of Artek’s standard models. The book has been illustrated with photographs, technical drawings, and sketches, some of which have been printed on original, thin sketching paper.
It requires radicalism to avoid creating a superficial comfort and instead to search out the problems whose solution could create the conditions for better architectural work and achieve truly usable criteria for people’s well-being in their everyday lives.
— Alvar Aalto in the Finnish Architectural Review Arkkitehti about the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930. In: Alvar Aalto Furniture, p. 114.
The copy currently in our stock is the hardcover edition and in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The dust jacket has some small traces of shelf wear and edge wear. Please note that our product photos are from our previous copy.
