Alvar Aalto Bent Lamination

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Alvar aalto bent lamination.

3 february 1898 11 may 1976 was a finnish architect and designer. Long strips of birch wood several millimeters thick called lamella are layered with the grain running in the same direction then glued and bent into the desired form. In 1932 aalto had developed a revolutionary type of furniture made of laminated bent plywood. When one thinks of alvar aalto images of laminated wood and plywood furniture instantly spring to mind.

Aalto invented a new form of laminated bent plywood furniture which he patented in 1933. Available for sale from r company alvar aalto paimio chair 1931 1932 bent plywood bent laminated birch and solid birch 34 1 2 23 3 4 26 in. His designs were popular from the 1850s on especially among 20th century architects such as le corbusier and alvar aalto. Aalto s bar stool 64 1935 is familiar because it s been copied so often.

The building was considered the flagship of finnish functionalism. Aalto s stool e60 1934 is a four legged version. The result of this unique method of bending birch wood is the l leg that be can be found on many of his furniture forms. To this end he carried out numerous experiments with bent laminated wood in the late 1920s.

Hugo alvar henrik aalto pronounced ˈhuɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto. Aalto s stool e60 1934 is a four legged version. In 1932 aalto had developed a revolutionary type of furniture made of laminated bent plywood. It is made of bent laminated veneer and is the result of numerous bending trials using birch wood that is in part naturally damp.

His stools are simple designs with bent wooden legs that provide strength durability and stackability. Alvar aalto created in 1931 the paimio chair which was manufactured of bent plywood and laminated wood. In 1935 the company artek was established in finland to mass produce and distribute wood furniture designed by aalto and his wife aino. Radically modern furniture from wood was one of aalto s central ideas.

The paimio chair quickly became popular and was produced in large quantities. Aalto s bentwood furniture had a great influence on the american designers charles and ray eames and the finnish born eero saarinen. His work includes architecture furniture textiles and glassware as well as sculptures and paintings he never regarded himself as an artist seeing painting and sculpture as branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture. At the london great exhibition in 1851 thonet s steam bent laminated wood chairs and settees far outshone the heavy ornate furniture of the period.