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Aino Aalto (born Aino Marsio; 1894-1949) was a Finnish architect and designer. She married Alvar Aalto in 1924 and with him designed furniture. In 1935 they founded Artek, a firm selling lightning fixture and furniture. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Finlandia Hall. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Shaker rocker, or rocking chair. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... ARTEK was founded in 1935 by Alvar Aalto so create world-renowned modern furniture. ...

Aino Aalto also designed several glassware objects to Iittala. Her most famous glass design (see illustration) is still on sale, and slightly different copies made by companies such as IKEA are widespread. She also collaborated with her huspend Alvar on the design of the celebrated Savoy Vase in 1936. IKEA is a privately held international low cost home furnishings retailer. ... The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a world famous piece of glassware created by Alvar Aalto. ...

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Aalto, Alvar (1680 words)
	Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was one of the first major architects of the modern movement to emerge in Scandinavia and Finland, and he remains one of the most individual and poetic masters of functionalism in the architecture of our time.
	Aalto was born at Kuortane in Finland in 1898.
	Aalto's painting is still relatively unknown and a detailed review of his various periods can hardly be given before the material has been collected together and the different works compared.

Alvar Aalto: Savoy Vase (1936). Text by Jan Michl (1347 words)
	Aalto wanted the forms to be blown into molds made of thin steel sheets forced to form closed sinuous shapes with the help of steel pegs; the aim was to make the molds easily replaceable in order to make remodelling possible.
	Aalto's growing preoccupation with sinuous, "organic" shapes became explicit in his acoustic design for his municipal library lecture hall at Viipuri in 1935, where the ceiling of the long and narrow hall is provided with a strikingly expressive undulating wooden "lining".
	Aalto himself is said to have alleged that the lines of the vase were prompted to him by the captivating shape of a puddle.

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