Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

Aalto's career spans the changes in style from ( Nordic Classicism ) to purist International Style Modernism to a more personal, synthetic and idiosyncratic Modernism.

The handmade legs have the portions attached to the seat opening up into a fan, showing simultaneously the bent wood characteristic of Artek furniture and the fan motif that runs through Aalto's architecture.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

Aalto's furniture was exhibited in London in 1935, to great critical acclaim, and to cope with the consumer demand Aalto, together with his wife Aino, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded the company Artek that same year.

To this day, it is regarded as the most astute theoretical analysis of Aalto's architecture ever made, being concerned not so much with formal analysis or historical chronology but rather with a structuralist analysis ( and in this regard he gives reference to philosophers Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser ) of Aalto's works in terms of the themes that can be said to have generated them ; such as typology, urbanism and nature.

The main concert hall, called Finlandia Hall, seats 1, 700 and features Aalto's distinctive marble balconies and cobalt-blue walls with bent-wood decoration.

The studio was originally set up ostensibly to assist Aalto's architects ' office with interior designs for his buildings.

The bad investments made during Aalto's reign resulted in financial bankruptcy in 1992.

Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.

This building was the first building of Aalto's redbrick period.

Other notable Constructivist designs of Shchusev were the Ministry of Agriculture or Narkomzem in Moscow ( 1928 – 1933 ) and the Institute of Resorts in Sochi ( 1927 – 1931 ), considered to be a major source for Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium.

Landmarks of Katajanokka include the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, also known as Uspenski Cathedral ( architect Alexey Gornostaev, 1868 ), the Merikasarmi complex of the Foreign Ministry ( architect Carl Ludvig Engel, 1825 ) and the Finnish headquarters of Stora Enso ( architect Alvar Aalto, 1962 ; the most controversial of Aalto's works ).

The shift in Aalto's design approach from classicism to modernism is epitomised by the Viipuri Library ( 1927 – 35 ), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building.

Following Aalto's death in 1976 his office continued to operate under the direction of his widow, Elissa, completing works already to some extent designed.

Aalto's wide field of design activity ranges from the large scale of city planning and architecture to interior design, furniture and glassware design and painting.

Aalto's ' High Stool ' and ' Stool E60 ' ( manufactured by Artek are currently used in Apple stores across the world to serve as seating for customers.

Alvar Aalto's Baker House ( 1947 ), Eero Saarinen's Chapel and Auditorium ( 1955 ), and I. M.

The headquarters of the University of Jyväskylä are considered to be Aalto's masterpieces.

The competition was won by architect Arto Sipinen, who had previously worked in Aalto's office.

Church of Muurame is of Alvar Aalto's design.

ISBN 951-722-789-2 ( an account of the saga of Aalto's controversial building on Katajanokka.

* There's also a cottage designed by Alvar Aalto, though it is not listed in most Aalto's biographies.

Larger versions are made using Aalto's design, but without seams.

* Patrick Aalto's homepage, has been inactive since December 1999.

Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

he had found his style quite early in his career and he thought it quite wonderful that the world admired it, and he could not imagine why he should alter it.

Poirot's appearance, regarded as fastidious during his early career, is hopelessly out of fashion later in his career.

* For a new understanding of his early career, based on a newly discovered text, see also: Michot, Yahya, Ibn Sînâ: Lettre au vizir Abû Sa'd.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

After the early death of his father, Ambrose followed his father's career.

His career was forwarded by the Church however and institutions of the Catholic clerics supported his early advance.

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.

The height of Nimzowitsch's career was the late 1920s and early 1930s.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

In Bardot's early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed to her image of sensuality.

Disraeli had been considering a political career as early as 1830, before he departed England for the Mediterranean.

During the early years of his career he produced several drawings and additional contributions for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly.

However, Charlton credits much of the early development of his career to his grandfather Tanner and his mother Cissie.

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In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter ’ s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

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In his early career he and his bands contributed to the Turkish rock movement by combining traditional Turkish music with rock influences, which is still one of the main trends of Turkish popular music.

In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006 Bo Diddley commented about the racism that existed in the music industry establishment during the early part of his career that saw him deprived of his royalties from the most successful part of his career.