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Artek and the Aaltos

Creating a Modern World
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Artek and the Aaltos delves into the intersection of design, architecture, and innovation, focusing on the collaboration between Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his wife, Aino, and their role in founding the design company Artek. It explores how their pioneering work in modernist architecture and furniture design contributed significantly to the evolution of 20th-century aesthetics. This book provides insights into their artistic vision and the enduring impact of their creative partnership.
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Artek and the Aaltos

The newly revised and expanded study of the world-renowned Finnish design company Artek.

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The newly revised and expanded study of the world-renowned Finnish design company Artek

Best known for the production of Aalto’s famous bentwood furniture, Artek was a multifaceted design company that created numerous innovative products. This extensively illustrated book is based on an extraordinary range of newly discovered archival materials that shed new light on Artek’s history. It looks at the close working relationship between Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto, and the critical roles they played in its establishment and development internationally.

Reissued in hard cover and with an enlarged trim size, greater prominence is given to the more than 500 drawings and photographs, including a selection never-before published. The addition of a chronology that traces the parallel history of Artek and the Aalto office offers an unprecedented understanding of the many projects they created together. The original text received the 2018 Philip Johnson Award for outstanding exhibition catalogue by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center and the Alvar Aalto Foundation

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300258967

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Edition: Revised and Expanded Edition

Illustration: 500 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

  • Edited by Nina Stritzler-Levine

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 696

About the Author

Nina Stritzler-Levine is gallery director and director of gallery publications of Bard Graduate Center in New York. 

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