Alvar Aalto model 95 side table for Artek

Hugo alvar henrik aalto (1898 – 1976) was a finnish architect and designer. 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 ahlström-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. 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. The alvar aalto museum, designed by aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city jyväskylä. This model 95 is produced and launched in 2008 by artek as part of a collection kids tables. The half circular table is designed to be used as single table, mostly standing agaist a wall or as matching table to rectangle tables to make a island to play on. This table, with minor cracks in the softtop tabletop, is in good condition consistent with age and use.