Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter.
[from Wikipedia] 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.
[2] 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. His furniture designs were considered
Scandinavian Modern.
[3] 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.
Wolfburg Kulturahaus
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