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Lot 39TP,Ω

Alvar Aalto
Cantilevered armchair, model no. 34/402, designed 1933

12 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £2,000

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Alvar Aalto

Cantilevered armchair, model no. 34/402, designed 1933
Bent birch laminated plywood, fabric upholstery.
75 x 61 x 68.5 cm
Manufactured by O.y. Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas A.b., Turku, for Artek, Finland. Apron stamped AALTO DESIGN/ARTEK and underside of each leg impressed 52.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Oulu
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
'Finmar: Furniture of the future for the home of To-day', Finmar, London, 1939, pp. 1, 9
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ed., Alvar Aalto Designer, Vammala, 2002, pp. 88-89, 166
Thomas Kellein, ed., alvar & aino aalto. design collection bischofberger, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Zurich, 2005, pp. 114-117

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