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Paimio Sanatorium (Finnish: Paimion parantola, Swedish: Pemars sanatorium) is a former tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio, Southwest Finland, designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Aalto received the design commission having won the architectural competition for the project held in 1929.
The sanatorium was the most significant collaborative project between Korhonen and Aalto. Aalto designed the building itself; he and Korhonen designed a range of armchairs and tables for the facility's personnel and patients. Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas manufactured the furniture and other interior elements.
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (pronounced [ˈhuːɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. [1] His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings.
Time, space and mortality work to no earthly schedule in the half-lit, hand-made twilight world of “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass” — so it’s appropriate that this vertiginous ...
Aalto House 1952–1954: Master plan [125] Kaskinen: Aalto was fired in 1954. [nb 5] 1952–1954: Employee Housing [14] [100] Munkkiniemi, Helsinki: National Pension Institute: 1952–1954: Sports hall [14] Otaniemi: 1952–1955: Library [76] University of Jyväskylä: Part of his master plan 1952–1956: Theater [129] Helsinki: Part of the ...
Aalto argued that the angle of the back of the chair was the perfect angle for the patient to breathe most easily. The design of the chair may have been influenced by Marcel Breuer's metal Wassily Chair, though Aalto was generally negative towards metal furniture. [3] The degree of bending of the wood tested the technical limits of that time.
The most famous was the Paimio Sanatorium, completed in 1933 and designed by world-renowned architect Alvar Aalto. It had both sun-balconies and a rooftop terrace where the patients would lie all day either in beds or on specially designed chairs, the Paimio Chair. [8]
3107 chair (Model 3107 chair) is a variant of the Ant chair, both designed by Arne Jacobsen (see below) 40/4 (forty-in-four) stacking Chair designed by David Rowland, 1964; 406 Aalto armchair designed by Alvar Aalto in 1938 (IKEA sells a similar design called the Poäng lounge chair) 4801 armchair designed by Joe Colombo for Kartell, 1963