This book presents eight single-family houses built by Aalto in Finland, Estonia, and France from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s. Markku Lahti, director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, describes the fascinating history of the selected houses, the people for whom they were built, and how Aalto adapted his own design ideals to the needs of his clients.
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"Aalto is best known in the U.S. for his furniture designs, but this book takes you on a tour of the 24 dwellings he conceived and built throughout Finland-- some sleek and modern, others unexpectedly rustic." -- Details, March 2011
"This book manages to present interesting Aalto work that most of us have never seen... These wonderful houses are presented in an exemplary way, the fine photography, mostly by Jari Jetsonen, supplemented in every case by floor plans and often by elevations." --Interior Design, February 2011
"Cannily combines modern ideals with a down-to-earth realism." --Slate.com, April 27, 2011
"This is truly a keepsake book of one of architecture's true icons." --Houses, issue 80 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"This book manages to present interesting Aalto work that most of us have never seen... These wonderful houses are presented in an exemplary way, the fine photography, mostly by Jari Jetsonen, supplemented in every case by floor plans and often by elevations." --Interior Design, February 2011
"Cannily combines modern ideals with a down-to-earth realism." --Slate.com, April 27, 2011
"This is truly a keepsake book of one of architecture's true icons." --Houses, issue 80 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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A very beautiful look inside the work of a great architect. For those who are precisely interested in Alvar Aalto projects for houses, I haven't found a better book yet.
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