Vintage view: Finnish designer, Alvar Aalto's domestic works

Sat, 23 Apr, 2016 - 01:00

Kya deLongchamps

According to Alvar Aalto: “Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.”

This curiously profound saying could be applied to most abstract adventures in art, and the designer and architect, (1898-1976) could have described his work in furniture with the same refreshing confidence.

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