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Villa Tammekann is a residential building located in Tartu, Estonia, notable for being one of few private residences designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, his first design to be realised outside Finland, and the only one located in Estonia or anywhere in the Baltic states. [3] [4] [5]
Villa Kokkonen is one of only a few private residential buildings, and the only artist's home, designed by Aalto. [2] [3]Despite being at the height of his professional reputation in the late 1960s, Aalto did not charge anything for his design. [2]
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.
The design was first presented to the public in November 1933 at a Finnish design exhibition titled Wood Only at Fortnum & Mason in London. [4] The stool has been in continuous production since its initial release in 1933. [5] A 1933 model of the stool was added to the permanent collection of MoMA in 1958. [6] [5] Aalto's Vyborg Library with stools
Artek have their own in-house designers, such as Ben af Schulten. Originally, the studio was set up ostensibly to assist Aalto's architects' office with interior designs for his buildings. Since Aalto's passing in 1976 the company has sold design objects by other Finnish designers, such as Juha Leiviskä, Ilmari Tapiovaara, and Eero Aarnio.
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The Kaufmann Conference Center was designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the architecture professor Edgar Kaufmann Jr..The conference hall is on the 12th floor of 809 United Nations Plaza, originally the headquarters of the Institute of International Education (IIE), at First Avenue and 45th Street in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1]
The building is located in a prominent position by the city's central South Harbour (Finnish: Eteläsatama) and Market Square, adjacent to the Presidential Palace. [3] [2] [4] It is considered by some an eyesore for the way it seems to clash [5] with the neoclassical architecture of its immediate surroundings and the Uspenski Cathedral, and is regarded as one of the most controversial of Aalto ...