Pre Artek Alvar Aalto Stool

Place these stools around a bar or high top table or even against a wall.

Pre artek alvar aalto stool.

It was 1933 when alvar aalto designed the stool 60 yet it remains today the most copied stool style today. Designs are judged in a range of categories on the basis of their humanity honesty innovation aesthetics and ethics. Alvar aalto s iconic stool 60 is the most elemental of furniture pieces equally suitable as a seat a table storage unit or display surface. Easily providing seating at tall kitchen counters for informal meals or providing extra seating while entertaining.

Projecting a sense of relaxed familiarity stool e60 is equally suited to the home public buildings and educational facilities. Founded in 1957 by the japanese institute of design promotion the good design award seeks to enrich life and society through design. Makia x alvar aalto 7 artek 87 contact. Alvar aalto s four legged stool e60 is the most elemental of furniture pieces equally suitable as a seat table storage unit or display surface.

Aalto s design is special in many ways but was pioneering in its utilitarian philosophy and minimalist aesthetic. Thanks to its geometry the stool can be stacked to save space in a spiralling tower sculpture. Finnstyle is proud to carry the only authentic aalto stool manufactured by artek which uses the original patented design and manufacturing technology to create the bent l shaped leg. Artek has a longstanding friendship with japanese fashion and textile designer akira minagawa.

The first collaboration between the finland aficionado minagawa founder of japan based fashion company minä perhonen and artek goes back to 2008 when he transformed the seat of alvar aalto s stool 60 into a labyrinth a playful tongue in cheek gesture. Shop alvaraalto fi alvar aalto museum alvar aallon katu 7 fi 40600 jyväskylä. Poster stool 60 20 00 add to cart.