Hugo Alvar Henrik
Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and
designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His
work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early
career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of
Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients
were industrialists; among these were the Ahlstrom-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s
to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic
Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism
during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. His
furniture designs were considered Scandinavian Modern.
What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design
as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of
art; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design
not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and
design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. Source
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