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[1] [2] Aalto used the chair leg, named the "L leg" in his 1933 design for the model 60 stool, which was intended for use in the Vyborg Library. [3] Aalto notoriously tested the durability of his design by repeatedly throwing a prototype of the stool against the ground. [4] Production of the stool in 1937
Table and chairs designed by the Aaltos. Huonekalutehdas Korhonen Oy, formerly called O.Y. Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas A.B is a former furniture producer located in Littoinen, Kaarina, Finland. The company was once known for manufacturing Alvar Aalto designed furniture.
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.
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
B55 Cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer. A cantilever chair is a chair whose seating and framework are not supported by the typical arrangement of 4 legs, but instead is held erect and aloft by a single leg or legs that are attached to one end of a chair's seat and bent in an L shape, thus also serving as the chair's supporting base.
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