Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World

About the AuthorNina Stritzler-Levine is gallery director and director of gallery publications of Bard Graduate Center in New York. 

Nina Stritzler-Levine is gallery director and director of gallery publications of Bard Graduate Center in New York. 

It also considers individuals such as Maija Heikenheimo, whose career at Artek spanned three decades.  In addition, this book examines the Aaltos’ advocacy for the use of standardized forms and shows how modern designers continue to work with the Artek product line and within the parameters of the company’s mission. Fully indexed appendices present new scholarship, including an inventory of the Artek product line (furniture, textiles, and glass), and a list of public and private commissions. The first English-language survey to focus on the Finnish Modernist design company Artek and its founders, Alvar and Aino Aalto The Finnish design firm Artek is best known as the producer and distributor of Modernist bentwood furniture designed by Alvar Aalto (1898–1976). It contextualizes the contributions of Artek, and those of its founders, Alvar and his wife, Aino Marsio Aalto (1894–1949), providing evidence for their close professional partnership as well as critical interpretations of their major projects. Artek and the Aaltos showcases more t