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DESIGN
AALTO OCH ARTEK I HEDEMORA
Utgiven av den ideella föreningen Hantverk och design i Hedemora ISBN 978‐91‐633‐8388‐5
Price 20,00 €
Ann‐Marie Sörbergs, Hantverk och design i Hedemora, ideell förening, Avesta 2012 Hard bound, 200 pages, Swedish
170 x 250 mm Söndagen före invigningen av utställningen till Hedemora stads 500‐årsjubelium 1946 lämnade Alvar Aalto utställningsområdet för att resa till USA och tjänstgöra som professor på MIT i Boston. Utställningspaviljongen stod då klar och visade de möbler som tillverkades av Svenska AB Artek i den nya fabriken på Callerholmsgatan i Hedemora. Paviljongen sägs vara den byggnad förenar Alvar Aaltos visioner som arkitekt. Den här boken försöker återge Svenska AB Arteks historia. I boken kan vi bland annat se de patent som Alvar
Aalto hade på tillverkningsmetoderna som användes i fabriken. Aino Aaltos skisser på Hedemora konditori (som tyvärr aldrig blev verklighet) samt de bilder och historier från fabrikens dryght 20‐åriga verksamhet.
AINO AALTO
ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐19‐2
Price 30,00 €
Editor: Ulla Kinnunen, Alvar Aalto Foundation, Alvar Aalto Museum, Vammala 2004
Hard bound, 232 pages, Finnish/English
238 x 297 mm This comprehensive publication sheds a good deal of light on previously unknown aspects of Aino Marsio‐
Aalto’s (1894‐1949) life and work. It is the first major book to deal so extensively with Aino Aalto's work. Aino Aalto is known mainly as a designer who worked alongside her husband Alvar Aalto. Nevertheless she was also a gifted, independent designer. Aino Aalto had a distinguished career, particularly in the field of glassware design, and also as a furniture and interior designer, an architect and a photographer.
AINO AALTO was rewarded in Year’s Artbook 2004‐competision with Eliel Aspel’s reward!
The introduction by Heikki Alanen (Aino and Alvar Aalto's grandson)
Articles:
Arne Heporauta: On Aino Marsio‐Aalto
Mia Hipeli: Aino Marsio‐Aalto, architect
Mia Hipeli: List of Works
Marjaana Launonen: Aino Aalto as Photographer
Kaarina Mikonranta: Aino Marsio‐Aalto – Interior and Furniture Designer
Renja Suominen‐Kokkonen: The Silent Central Personage – the Architect Aino Marsio‐Aalto
ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐34‐9
Price 38,50 €
Ed. Pirkko Tuukkanen, Alvar Aalto Museum, Helsinki 2014 4th edition
Soft bound, 240 pages, English
230 x 290 mm This book is the first comprehensive illustrated book on the designs of Alvar Aalto. Through the innovations in form and line that were born in his furniture designs, Aalto’s name has also become important in the history of design. Articles written by experts will shed light on many aspects of Aalto’s wide‐ranging scope as a designer of furniture, glass and light fittings. Articles: Ásdís Ólafsdóttir: "Known all over the world" ‐ Alvar Aalto as and International Designer Kaarina Mikonranta: Alvar Aalto ‐ Master of Variation Pekka Korvenmaa: More light? Timo Keinänen: Alvar and Aino Aalto as Glass Designers Catalogue of Alvar Aalto's Major Furniture Designs Catalogue of Alvar Aalto's Glass Designs Manufacture of Alvar Aalto Furniture Production of Aalto Vases CV Aalto's Main Building Projects
ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER
ISBN 2‐07‐011753‐7
Price 50,00 €
Editions Gallimard, France 2003
Hard bound, 240 pages, French
235 x 295 mm French version of the first comprehensive illustrated book on the designs of Alvar Aalto. Through the innovations in form and line that were born in his furniture designs, Aalto’s name has also become important in the history of design. Articles written by experts will shed light on many aspects of Aalto’s wide‐ranging scope as a designer of furniture, glass and light fittings. Articles:
Ásdís Ólafsdóttir: CONNU DANS LE MONDE ENTIER: ALVAR AALTO DESIGNER INTERNATIONAL Kaarina Mikonranta: ALVAR AALTO, MAÎTRE DE LA VARIATION Pekka Korvenmaa: PLUS DE LUMIÈRE? Timo Keinänen: ALVAR ET AINO AALTO ‐ L'ART DU VERRE Catalogue des pricipaux meubles d'Alvar Aalto Catalogue des objets en verre d'Alvar Aalto La fabrication de meubles d'Alvar Aalto La fabrication des vases Aalto Biographie de Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto Principaux projets architeturaux d'Alvar Aalto
ARTEK NO 2
ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐11‐6
Price 5,00 €
Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä 2003.
Soft bound, 22 pages, Finnish.
240 x 300 mm A facsimile edition of the Artek furniture catalogue for 1939 (?). Photographs in black and white.
BEN AF SCHULTÉN AND THE ARTEK TRADITION
ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐47‐5
Price 26,00 €
Ed. Ulla Kinnunen, Alvar Aalto Foundation / Alvar Aalto Museum, Helsinki 2008
Soft bound, 80 pages, Finnish/English 240 x 210 mm
This publication tells about interior architect Ben af Schultén's career and work at Artek from 1960's until 2004.
Af Schultén began working at Artek as a summer intern, and went on to rise trough the ranks, ultimately succeeding Aino Aalto and Maija Heikinheimo as Artistic Directors. Artek's multidisciplinary design approach with its firm focus on visual art resonated strongly with Ben af Schultén.
The publication includes great deal of pictures from the archives of Alvar Aalto Museum, Artek and Ben af Schultén.
All the text used in this work is based on a Master's Degree dissertation by Marja Kosunen entitled "Artek as
a calling and a lifetime's work. An account of Ben af Schultén's career at Artek."
FINMAR LIMITED
ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐10‐9
Price 5,00 €
Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä 2003
Soft bound, 54 pages, English
208 x 96 mm
Artek’s furniture catalogue facisimile edition, originally printed in 1936.
INSIDE THE VILLA MAIREA
Art, Design and Interior Architecture ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐57‐4
Price 88,00 €
Ed. Kirsi Gullichsen and Ulla Kinnunen, Alvar Aalto Museum and Mairea Foundation, 2009
Hard bound, 312 pages, English, over 300 photographs
280 x 220 mm A handsome book on the interior design of the legendary house.
The design process of Villa Mairea involved vivid interaction between the architects and the clients, and the inhabitants' personalities had a great effect on the end result: the Gullichsens knew how to demand a unique outcome.
Focusing on the interiors of Villa Mairea, this book deals with its furnishings, works of art and design objects
as well as the underlying ideology of beauty for everyday, which had emerged in Sweden.
Fresh contributions discussing the relationship of art and living are written by architect Kristian Gullichsen, artist Carolus Enckell, interior designer Ben af Schultén and art historian Renja Suominen‐Kokkonen.
THE BIRTH OF THE FINNISH MODERN. AALTO, KORHONEN AND MODERN TURKU
ISBN 978‐952‐92‐8780‐2
Price 25,00 €
Rauno Lahtinen
Furniturefactory Korhonen Oy, Hämeenlinna 2011
Hard bound, 156 pages, English
245 x 230 mm Modernism reached Finland during the 1920s and 1930s via Turku. The key milestone in the new style of architecture and furniture design was the 1929 Turku fair. Alvar Aalto, who then lived in Turku, and furniture‐factory owner Otto Korhonen worked together to develop a series of items of furniture that became classics. They created for Finland a reputation as one of the leading countries in modern design. ARCHITECTURE
A CONTATTO CON ALVAR AALTO
ISBN 952‐9845‐24‐3
Price 3,00 €
Ed. Pirkko Tuukkanen‐Beckers, Alvar Aalto Museum, Helsinki 1994
Hard bound, 124 pages, Italian
247 x 230 mm
The publication represents the work of Alvar Aalto through two main projects, Paimio Sanatorium and Villa Mairea. The book is published in connection with an international travelling exhibition. Exhibition shows Aalto’s architecture and his other production in a new way, and puts his architecture in a clear contrast with materials and shapes used today.
ALVAR AALTO ARCHITECT, VOLUME 6, THE AALTO HOUSE 1935‐36
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐01‐1
Price 49,00 €
Editor: Juhani Pallasmaa, Alvar Aalto Foundation, 2nd edition, Helsinki 2014
soft bound, 152 pages, English
305 x 245 mm The Aalto House is a seminal project in Alvar Aalto’s development, from the ideals of orthodox functionalism towards the complex, tactile, iclusive and emotive architecture of his mature age. The design development of the house reveals Aalto’s rejection of simplistic rationality and the emergence of his personal architectural pelasure. Renja Suominen‐Kokkonen: The Ideal Image of the Home Juhani Pallasmaa: Rationality and Domesticity Also the book includes brief descriptions with definitive illustrations of realised an unrealised projects contemporaneous with the Aalto House, carried out by Alvar Aalto’s architectural office between 1933 and 1936.
ALVAR AALTO ARCHITECT, Volume 7, SUNILA 1936‐54
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐04‐2 soft
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐03‐5 hard
Price 49,00 / 75,00 €
Ed. Pekka Korvenmaa, Alvar Aalto Foundation / Alvar Aalto Academy, Helsinki 2004.
Soft/Hard bound, 176 pages, English.
306 x 244 mm
A chronological series of monographs on buildings, dealing with the architecture of Alvar Aalto. This richly illustrated volume examines Aalto´s role in the service of Finnish industry. The particular emphasis is on the Sunila project, one of the most extraordinary and well‐preserved Modernist industrial and residential complexes.
Pekka Korvenmaa's essay, Modern Architecture Serving Modern Production, explores the interaction between Aalto and leading Finnish industrialists between 1930 and 1940. It demonstrates how these people availed themselves of Aalto's expertise to modernise not only their production facilities but the building stock of communities around the factories and how these events opened up exceptional opportunities for Aalto to test his architectural prowess.
In her essay ‐ Sunila Pulp Mill and Residential Area. The Ideology of Modernism in Practice ‐ Mia Hipeli describes the background to the industrial community and how Aalto obtained the commission which eventually led to one of the most extraordinary and well‐preserved Modernist industrial and residential complexes. The essay highlights the most important elements of this community.
Besides these two essays, the book contains Hipeli's brief descriptions (with photographs and drawings) of industrial projects, not all of which were built, contemporaneous with the Sunila project and produced by Aalto's architectural office between 1936 and 1954.
ALVAR AALTO ARCHITECT VOLUME 13, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OTANIEMI 1949‐74
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐07‐3 soft
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐08‐0 hard
Price 49,00 € / 75,00 €
Ed. Mia Hipeli, Alvar Aalto Säätiö / Alvar Aalto Akatemia, Helsinki 2008
Soft/Hard bound, 176 pages, English 305 x 245 mm Jaakko Penttilä's article "Building Alma Mater ‐ Alvar Aalto and the Otaniemi Campus" presents the background to the design process, beginning with the need at the end of the 1940s to relocate the university. Aalto's victory in the planning competition marked the beginning of the planning of one of his main and longest running building complex projects.
In this article "The historical background to Helsinki University of Technology ‐ Operations and Environments" Vilhelm Helander sheds light on the background to education within the field of technology before the transference of the university to Otaniemi. Alvar Aalto himself had studied in the architectural and cultural setting of the centre of Helsinki at the beginning of the 20th century.
In his article "The search for identity. Some mid‐20th century university campuses", Hugo Segawa ties Alvar Aalto's campus design to the international context. In the 1940s, before the Helsinki University of Technology competition, Aalto had worked at MIT in Boston, and was thus shortly afterwards able to realise
in Finland his interpretation of the American university Campus.
The Works section of the book presents a selection of buildings and unrealised projects by the Aalto office contemporary with the design of the Helsinki University of Technology buildings between 1947 and 1974.
ALVAR AALTO ARCHITECT VOLUME 16, JYVÄSKYLÄ UNIVERSITY 1951‐71
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐11‐0 soft
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐10‐3 hard
Price 49,00 € / 75,00 €
Ed. Mia Hipeli, Alvar Aalto Academy, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä 2009.
Soft/Hard bound, 176 pages, English
300 x 245 mm Articles by Päivi Lukkarinen, Mari Forsberg and Kristo Vesikansa. Rich amount of color photographs taken especially for this book, hitherto unpublished original drawings and Works‐section, which gathers Aalto's projects contemporary with the main theme.
In her article "Acropolis in the Pine Forest" Päivi Lukkarinen focuses on the cultural background factors to the design and the first stages of the construction of the buildings folliwing the planning competition.
In her article "The Park Area for Jyväskylä Campus" Mari Forsberg discusses the importance for Aalto of the totality comprising the earlier building stock and the surrounding park ‐ the campus was indeed built in the middle of the arboretum and teaching garden, created in the 1890s, that was central to the teacher training.
The college of education became a university in 1966. Kristo Vesikansa's article "Seminaarinmäki Campus after Alvar Aalto" presents the buildings completed since the 1970s designed by architects other than Alvar Aalto. The changing needs to the building stock of the academic milieu have been multifaceted, as the functions have diversified and the number of students has increased.
The book also includes all the previously unpublished material for Alvar Aalto's "URBS" proposal from 1951, including the competition drawings as well as photographs of the model and Aalto's competition report.
The Works section of the book, compiled by Katariina Pakoma and Mia Hipeli, presents a selection of buildings and unrealised projects by the Aalto office contemporary with the design of the University of Jyväskylä.
ALVAR AALTO ARCHITECT VOLUME 20, MAISON LOUIS CARRÉ 1956‐63
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐05‐9 soft
ISBN 978‐952‐5498‐06‐6 hard
Price 49,00 € / 75,00 €
Ed. Esa Laaksonen, Ásdís Ólafsdóttir, Alvar Aalto Foundation / Alvar Aalto Academy, Helsinki 2008
Soft or Hard bound, 192 pages, English.
306 x 244 mm
After the Villa Mairea, the Maison Louis Carré is the most carefully executed and detailed of the private houses designed by Alvar Aalto.
In her articles, A Home of Design and Art and Living at Maison Louis Carré, Ásdís Ólavsdóttir deals with life in the house and the complex process of designing its interiors, with particular reference to the specially made unique pieces of furniture.
In his essay, "I speak of what is good", Esa Laaksonen discusses the architecture of the building as a complete work of art and its relationship to Aalto's other designs. His analysis largely centres around the hitherto unpublished sketches, working drawings and photographs in the collections of the Alvar Aalto Museum.
Antoine Terrasse describes Louis Carré's rich and eventful life, a story complemented by Irmelin Lebeer's interview with the art dealer in the 1960s.
The book also presents other works produced by Aalto's office contemporaneus with the Maison Louis Carré design, 1955‐57. Arne Heporauta's list of realised and unrealised projects is complemented with Päivi Lukkarinen's article on the Korkalovaara housing area in Rovaniemi and Mari Forsberg's article on housing for the Viitaniemi garden town in Jyväskylä.
BIOGRAPHICAL
AINO AND ALVAR AALTO ‐ A SHARED JOURNEY. INTERPRETATIONS OF AN EVERYDAY MODERNISM
ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐32‐1
Price 26,00 €
Alvar Aalto Museum, Helsinki 2007
Soft bound, 224 pages, English 172 x 244 mm
“Aalto Studies” is the Alvar Aalto Museum’s new scholarly series, which is a collection of seven studies by Renja Suominen‐Kokkonen. Over the course of several years the author’s research has particularly focused on the role of Aino Aalto alongside her maestro husband, thus expanding our understanding of Aalto and his works.
Content: Introduction: Aalto studies and modernism in housing The Silent Central Personage ‐ the Architect Aino Marsio‐Aalto Towards a Happier Society ‐ Aino and Alvar Aalto and Turku in the 1920s From Alberti to Aalto ‐ The Trinity of Domicile, Family and Architecture The Ideal Image of the Home The Aalto House and the Homes of Aino and Alvar Aalto The Interior Design of the Villa Mairea A Library of art? ‐ The Villa Mairea and Notes on the Gender of the Art Collector Aesthetics or Politics. The "Danger" of Finnish Architecture and Desing During the So‐Called First Republic of
1919‐1944 ALVAR AALTO ‐ HIS LIFE
Göran Schildt
ISBN 978‐952‐5371‐29‐1
Price 23,00 € Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä 2007
Kovakantinen, 774 sivua, englanninkielinen. 152 x 215 mm The author Göran Schildt was a close conversational companion for Alvar Aalto. Schildt has written a number of books about his architect friend, of which the 3‐volume monograph, which has been translated into many languages, has become a basic source for research and writing on Aalto. This work, Alvar Aalto ‐ His Life, brings together the biographical aspects of the monograph under single covers.