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.

Since Aalto's death in 1976 the company has sold design objects by other Finnish designers, such as Juha Leiviskä and Eero Aarnio, as well as Vitra furniture.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Airy and bright, the apartment was furnished with good modern furniture, rugs, and draperies.

The desk before him was in no better repair than the rest of the furniture crowded into the room, including wooden file cabinets with some of their pulls yanked off and a wardrobe stained with the roof seepage of countless seasons.

The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.

The inside of their place was full of new furniture, five bucks down and a buck a week stuff, but all of it clean and full of the warmth of a home.

Deal furniture with a mahogany finish was neatly arranged as if it stood in the window of a department store.

She was also an authority on the traditional Lakeland crafts, period furniture and stonework.

In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

Allen's name is the trademark of the furniture and housewares manufacturer, Ethan Allen Inc., which was founded in 1932 in Beecher Falls, Vermont.

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld ( 24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964 ) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

Giger has created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for a movie of the novel Dune that was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

* A researcher from the University of Copenhagen pointed out that for years, IKEA has named their cheap rugs after Danish places, while the more expensive and luxurious furniture was named after Swedish places.

Caprino was the son of furniture designer Mario Caprino and the artist Ingeborg Gude, who was a granddaughter of the painter Hans Gude.

Kung-an was itself originally a metaphor — an article of furniture that came to denote legal precedents.

Bycast was originally made for the shoe industry and recently was adopted by the furniture industry.

Family furniture was placed in the president's private study.

Developing his talents as an MC with Flavor Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D ( Carlton Douglas Ridenhour ) and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record " Check Out the Radio ," backed by " Lies ," a social commentary — both of which would influence RUSH Productions ' Run-D. M. C.

James's alleged obsession with Barbara Windsor was such that it was said he returned to his home one day to find that all of the furniture had been rearranged, and on another occasion that her husband of the time, Ronnie Knight, had put an axe in his floor.

Most of the filming took place in the farmhouse, which was filled with furniture constructed from animal bones and a latex material used as upholstery to give the appearance of human skin.