Alvar Aalto, 'Paimio' armchair, model no. 41

designed 1932, executed 1950s
Birch plywood.
65.5 x 60.2 x 84 cm (25 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 33 1/8 in.)
Manufactured by O.y. Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas A.b., Turku for Artek, Helsinki, Finland.

Provenance

Ruedi Rock, Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, p. 5
Peter Reed, ed., Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998, pp. 165, 201
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ed., Alvar Aalto Designer, Vammala, 2002, pp. 18, 71, 160, 165
Thomas Kellein, ed., Alvar & Aino Aalto: Design Collection Bischofberger, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Zürich, 2005, pp. 39-41
Juhani Pallasmaa, ed., Alvar Aalto Furniture, exh. cat., Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, 1984, pp. 12, 76, 80, 86-89, 91, 126, 132-33
Nina Stritzler-Levine, ed., Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World, exh. cat., Bard Graduate Center, New Haven, 2016, throughout