Alvar Aalto

Rare armchair, model no. 42, designed 1932, executed 1930s-1940s

Rare armchair, model no. 42, designed 1932, executed 1930s-1940s
Curly birch-veneered bent plywood, bent laminated birch.
68.5 x 59 x 69 cm
Produced by Artek, Helsinki, Finland.

Provenance
Private collection, Turku
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
Juhani Pallasmaa, ed., Alvar Aalto Furniture, exh. cat., Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, 1984, pp. 12, 76, 80, 86-89, 91, 126, 132-133
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ed., Alvar Aalto Designer, Vammala, 2002, pp. 18, 71, 160, 165
Nina Stritzler-Levine, ed., Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World, exh. cat., Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2016, passim