Alvar Aalto console, model for Arkek
By Alvar Aalto
Located in Skokie, IL
Alvar Aalto console, model 153B prototype for Arkek, Finland, circa 1980s. Alvar Aalto slat
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Alvar Aalto Console
Alvar Aalto Entryway Console Mirror and Stool Set, 1950s for Artek
$5,635
H 68.9 in W 19.69 in D 12.6 in
Alvar Aalto Entryway Console Mirror and Stool Set, 1950s for Artek
By Oy Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab, Artek, Alvar Aalto
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A beautiful entryway set of a drawer console, mirror and stool by Alvar Aalto for Artek made of
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$3,303
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Minimalist Alvar Aalto Drawer Wall Shelf Model B 114, 1950s for Artek
By Alvar Aalto, Oy Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab, Artek
Located in Helsinki, FI
A beautiful drawer shelf / console by Alvar Aalto in solid birch and oak veneer for Artek. A small
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Alvar Aalto Wall Console Artek 114A
By Artek, Alvar Aalto
Located in Espoo, FI
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Category
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Alvar Aalto, rare teak veneer 114b wall console drawer
By Artek, Alvar Aalto
Located in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi
This stunning Alvar Aalto 114b wall console drawer features a rare and exquisite teak veneer from
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Alvar Aalto Console For Sale on 1stDibs
Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the alvar aalto console you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each alvar aalto console for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and glass. Find 78 options for an antique or vintage alvar aalto console now, or shop our selection of 1 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. Your living room may not be complete without a alvar aalto console — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right alvar aalto console, those designed in Art Deco, mid-century modern and Art Nouveau styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made alvar aalto console over the years, but those crafted by Mobichalet, Ateljé Glas & Trä and Gruppo Skipper are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
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The average selling price for a alvar aalto console at 1stDibs is $7,900, while they’re typically $1,350 on the low end and $700,000 for the highest priced.
Alvar Aalto for sale on 1stDibs
An architect and designer, Alvar Aalto deserves an immense share of the credit for bringing Scandinavian modernism and Nordic design to a prominent place in the global arena. In both his buildings and his vintage furniture — which ranges from chairs, stools, tables and lighting to table- and glassware — Aalto’s sensitivity to the natural world and to organic forms and materials tempered the hardness of rationalist design.
Relatively few Aalto buildings exist outside Finland. (Just four exist in the United States, and only one — the sinuous 1945 Baker House dormitory at M.I.T. — is easily visited.) International attention came to Aalto, whose surname translates to English as “wave,” primarily through his furnishings.
Instead of the tubular metal framing favored by the Bauhaus designers and Le Corbusier, Aalto insisted on wood. His aesthetic is best represented by the Paimio armchair, developed with his wife, Aino Aalto, in 1930 as part of the overall design of a Finnish tuberculosis sanatorium.
Comfortable, yet light enough to be easily moved by patients, the Paimio chair’s frame is composed of two laminated birch loops; the seat and back are formed from a single sheet of plywood that scrolls under the headrest and beneath the knees, creating a sort of pillow effect. Aalto’s use of plywood had an enormous influence on Charles and Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen, Marcel Breuer and others who later came to the material.
Concerned with keeping up standards of quality in the production of his designs, Aalto formed the still-extant company Artek in 1935, along with Aino, whose glass designs were made by the firm. In the latter medium, in 1936 the Aaltos together created the iconic, undulating Savoy vase, so-called for the luxe Helsinki restaurant for which the piece was designed.
Artek also produced Aalto pendants and other lighting designs, many of which — such as the Angel’s Wing floor lamp and the Beehive pendant — incorporate a signature Aalto detail: shades made of concentric enameled-metal rings graduated down in diameter. The effect of the technique is essential Alvar Aalto: at once precise, simple, and somehow poetic.
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