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Posts tagged “Alvar Aalto”

Studio Aalto: Alvar Aalto's Design Office
Studio Tour

Name: Alvar Aalto Location: Helsinki, Finland After Alvar Aalto's firm had outgrown the small studio space in his family's home the Atelier was built in 1955 in a residential neighborhood just a sh...

Riihitie 20: The Aalto Family Home, Studio & Laboratory
House Tour

Name: Alvar Aalto & family Location: Munkkiniemi neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland Size: approximately 2,200 square feet Years lived in: 40 years Alvar Aalto's first building built in Helsinki was ...

Droog Aalto by Jan Ctvrtnik

Yesterday, Sally from ATSF shared her friend's use of Alvar Aalto's iconic vase as a fishbowl. Earlier in the year, we shared Tobias Wong's unique "doorstop" interpretation. Now, there's another int...

Special Edition Stool 60 by Artek & Monocle Magazine

Monocle Magazine and Finnish company Artek have teamed up to produce a limited-edition version of Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60. Designed to celebrate the stool's 75th Anniversary, this new interpr...

Hot or Not? Aalto Doorstop by Tobias Wong

Tobias Wong's knack for creatively reinterpreting classic objects got a lot of attention when McDonald's sued him over his Cokespoon #2 collaboration with Ju$t Another Rich Kid. For the doorstop, W...

NYT: Artek

Birch (& Bamboo). Finnish furniture company Artek was written up in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Out of the Woods looks at Artek's commitment to sustainability � over seventy years of "good q...

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