Artist: Alvar Aalto (1900 - )
Nationality: Finnish
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (7)
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Artist: Alvar Aalto Title: Armchair (Chair 31) Date: about 1930 Medium: birch-faced plywood, laminated birch
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L-leg Side Chair, Alvar Aalto (Kuortane (Länsi-Suomen Lääni), Finland, 1898 - 1976) , Designed 1933-1935, manufactured 1947-1957, Laminated wood
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End Table with Shelf, Alvar Aalto (Kuortane (Länsi-Suomen Lääni), Finland, 1898 - 1976) , Design date unknown, manufactured 1947-1957, Laminated wood, black paint
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Two Stacking Chairs, Alvar Aalto (Kuortane (Länsi-Suomen Lääni), Finland, 1898 - 1976) , designed circa 1929; manufactured circa 1936, Wood, paint
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Desk and File Cabinet, Alvar Aalto (Kuortane (Länsi-Suomen Lääni), Finland, 1898 - 1976) , Designed before 1938, manufactured 1948-1957, Laminated wood; laminated wood, metal casters, hardware
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Desk Chair used at the Seniors’ Dormitory at Baker House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alvar Aalto (Kuortane (Länsi-Suomen Lääni), Finland, 1898 - 1976) , Designed 1947-1948, manufactured 1947-1957,
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Alvar Sanchez, Nephew of Doña Lambra, Insults Gonzalo Gomez and is Slain by Him, Antonio Tempesta (Italy, Florence, 1555 - 1630) , 1612, Etching

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Century of Design, Part II: 1925–1950
Bauhaus designers such as Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld explored the possibilities of functionalism, mass production, and industrial mat...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Marti Friedlander: Photographs
Friedlander's visual records of cultural change have long been celebrated. The first camera-artist to independently document post-war New Zealand, her work ...
Museum of Foreign Art Sinebrychoff: It`s Always Morning - Somewhere
Most of the material used in It`s Always Morning - Somewhere has been collected from where millenium time begins, from the Tonga Islands, plus a few of the world`s metropolises. The multimedia installation takes visitors into the...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection

More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: A...
20th Century Art & Design Fair: Fair Opens Tomorrow in the National Hall Olympia
Exhibitors who have committed already to this year’s fair include Country Seat and Morgan Greenwood with the finest furniture and objects from eminent and international designers such as Aalto and Bertoia, The Loschs from Germany, specialising in ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Last Week! Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection
More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of the major movements of the period: Arts...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: Terry Urbahn: The Sacred Hart
Urbahn’s video installation reunites a handful of White Hart protagonists for one night of remembrance and celebration. The video pans a laden table, tracing characters and plots as the guests revisit old lives, rituals, memories and what a commun...
Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family
Completed in 1938, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane a few months later, rebuilt, and subsequently destroyed by fire in 1973. It has therefore remained largely overlooked. However, two years of almost daily correspondence between the ...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Sharon Lockhart: Teatro Amazonas
'Teatro Amazonas' at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an exhibition of films and photographs by the American artist Sharon Lockhart (born 1964), with particular emphasis on a series of new pieces. Lockhart's latest body of work was created on visit...

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