Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
How do you improve on a design classic? Well, when it comes to the Alvar Aalto Savoy Vase, you just add a bit of colour to produce the Duo Vase. The original was designed back in the mid-1930s, named after...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Another Alvar Aalto design has just been reissued, this time the 403 Hallway Chair. Dating all the way back to 1931, this stackable chair was originally designed for the Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, offering a stylish moulded birch plywood construction...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
We love the designs of Alvar Aalto, even his more leftfield work - like the Bilberry suspension light. Dating back to the late 1950s, Aalto designed these fittings for Maison Carre in France - but thankfully for us, the lights...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Does the above look familiar? Yes, it does indeed look like the iconic Alvar Aalto Stool 60, featured on this site way back in 2006. But it isn't - this is the Ikea Frosta Stool. The difference? Well, a good...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
JYVASKYLA.- This exhibition in the Gallery at the Alvar Aalto Museum is showing drawings and models of shelters designed for research workers in the Koli landscape. These fresh ideas and inventive methods of implementation, designed by students in the Department of Architecture at the University of Oulu, are part of the studies carried out at the Laboratory of Contemporary Architecture...
Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... Within Reach, Twilight Sleep Sofa for $1000 Vintage Nightstand "White/Shabby/Pretty!" for $65 ALVAR AALTO Chair for $650 1950s/1960s chairs (6), Retro Chic! for $50 Danish dux vintage eames lounge chair ottoman teak denmark for $550 Vintage Teak TV Trays for $70 DUX set of 4 chairs for $185 Mid Century Modern style chair for $16 Vintage Self Standing Outdoor Swing- Large, very Sturdy...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Merchandise from the Judy Ross textile collection will be discounted up to 70 percent off retail prices at a sample sale starting Thursday. Items include 18-inch-square hand-embroidered throw pillows ($70, marked down from $190 to $230), left; 6-by-9-foot hand-knotted rugs ($3,510 to $3,780, reduced from $4,860 to $5,400); and upholstered Alvar Aalto stools ($600, discounted from $950)....
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... designers of the 20th Century, namely Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967), Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991) and George Nakashima (1905-1990), whose prescient visions of Modernism continue to shape aesthetic sensibilities around the world. The sale is expected to fetch in excess of £2...
Kingdom Of Style (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
... "Myrica grew up in a home filled with furniture by Scandinavian designers such as Carl Malmsten, Alvar Aalto and Josef Frank and that, together with her five years in Rome’s classical, conservative architecture and Italy’s decadent dolce vita, has a strong influence on her designs. Humor, glamour and the luxury of everyday life together with simplicity can describe her designs and...
Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... faith to order furniture sight unseen, and strive to make you feel that you've made a good choice. Alvar Aalto Tea Trolley, $2359 B2H's list of designers include designs by le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, and Mies Van der Rohe, and Harry Bertoia, among many others. If you've sat upon, touched, viewed, or purchased furniture from B2H, let us all know what you thought. (Edited from this...
David Report (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
What is sustainability in design? For Artek and Marimekko , it is a combination of high quality, longevity and strong ideology of true design. Now these two Finnish top design houses meet in Spiral Garden in Tokyo to present this approach in an exhibition entitled Be Honest!. This year Artek celebrates the 75th anniversary of Stool 60. Designed by the architect Alvar Aalto in 1933, this...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... up his own firm, design restaurants (Inn the Park) and members' clubs (Shoreditch House) and lead Alvar Aalto’s company, Artek, into the 21st century. This month he has a new furniture collection in collaboration with the historic firm George Smith; his Wingback sofa is shown here. For the second year running he is the creative director of 100% Design, and he has designed another...
