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He is one of the masters of the modern movement
In this video I will give you a very small hint of architecture (also because I am not an architect but a designer) but I will focus on the industrial design products made by this design master.
His work, and his world is based on tradition and what he saw in his land, namely water, trees, forests
And in fact to understand his projects it is enough to see where he grew up…. I'll show you some pictures just to understand.
If we look at all his projects, we see how he was completely inspired by nature. Obviously it is not that he made everything in the shape of leaves or trees, but he took the essence of what nature offered him to sometimes create something new.
The standardized object must not be a finished product, on the contrary it must be produced so that man, with his individual values, is able to complete it
Alvar Aalto, born in Kuortane (Finland) on 3 February 1898 and died in Helsinki on 11 May 1976, is a Finnish architect, designer and academic, known as one of the most important figures in 20th century architecture as one of the greatest masters of the Modern Movement.
Son of the Finnish engineer Henrik Aalto, Alvar began his business in his father's studio.
In 1916 he moved to Helsinki where he attended the Polytechnic, and where he found the architect Armas Lindgren as a teacher, who exerted a very strong influence on him.
Think that Finland at that time was part of the Russian Grand Duchy
After completing his studies, in 1921, he enrolled in the order of architects and in 1923 he returned to Jyvaskyla and opened his own studio, dealing with both design and architecture.
He exhibited his most prestigious works in various countries: in Italy (V Triennale di Milano in 1933), in Switzerland (Zurich), Denmark (Copenhagen) and the United States (MoMA). In 1965, however, after having held a large exhibition in the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, he was definitively recognized as one of the best European artists of the century.
Alvar Aalto designs and builds the librarian of Viipuri (1927-1935), furnished - with the collaboration of his new wife Aino Marsio - with the famous stackable stools in curved wood and the "Hybrid" seats: a single sheet of curved plywood for the seat and the backrest, cantilevered on a tubular steel base.
He has always been linked to nature, drawing inspiration from it, and one of the things that can be seen in his interior design projects is the natural light that enters the rooms designed by him.
In a simple, but not trivial and above all functional way.
In 1935 Alvar Aalto, supported by collaborators and a wood manufacturer, founded Artek, a furniture and lighting company that is still famous worldwide.
The company was created "to sell furniture" - designed by Alvar Aalto - "and to promote the modern culture of the home through exhibitions and other means".
He was a true experimenter, especially on wood bending techniques
He has developed the lamination of multilayer wood to the maximum, a technique for bending wood without the use of steam, but inspired by the curvature of the wood made on skis.
consists of overlapping thin sheets of wood one on top of the other with the fibers opposite each other. Between the two there is a layer of glue.
Before the glue solidifies, the layers of wooden sheets are placed in a machine that has the curvature we want to obtain. Here the children are pressed inside this shape, maintaining the position until the glue has completely solidified.
Subsequently, human action or numerical control processing is carried out for the finishing touches.
With this concept he was able to create various objects, and to inspire young designers of the time and of the future. Suffice it to say that Alvar Aalto was the judge of an award awarded within the MOMA in NEW YORK.
A group of young designers including Charles Eames, Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen won the prize.
Who spent the following years experimenting with the technology invented by Alvar Aalto
Among his most important projects and made with the cold wood bending technique we have the 41 Paimio armchair made for a sanatorium that bore the same name, always made by him.
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