'Paimio' armchair, mod. 41/8-2
Designer
Alvar Aalto
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas
Finmar
Origin
Finland
Year
circa 1932
Design Museum Section
Finnish Design Icons
Designed by Architects
Design in Moulded Plywood
Categories
Armchairs, Lounge chairs
Designheroes ID
53932
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Moulded_plywood
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
'Paimio' armchair, mod. 41/8-2
'Paimio' armchair, mod. 41/8-2, designed for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio
Laminated birch plywood, painted laminated birch plywood, birch
circa 1932
Manufactured by O.y. Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas A.b., Turku, Finland, for Finmar, UK.
63 x 60 x 86.7 cm (24 3/4 x 23 5/8 x 34 1/8 in)
Underside with manufacturer's plastic label 'FINMAR LTD./DESIGN REG./787811 - 19./MADE IN FINLAND.'.
Literature
‘Finmar Limited: London, S.W.1, 44 Ranelagh Road’, sales catalogue, London, 1936, n.p.
Domus (Milan), no. 103, July 1936, p. 42 for the design exhibited at the VI Triennale; no. 435, February 1966, fig. 19, fig. 21, technical drawing; no. 440, July 1966, n.p.; no. 532, March 1974, n.p.; no. 670, March 1986, p. 65; no. 676, October 1986, p. 30; no. 697, September 1988, pp. 104-08; no. 748, April 1993, p. 77; no. 810, December 1993, pp. 43 and 45, fig. 7
‘Finmar: Furniture of the future for the home of To-day’, sales catalogue, London, 1939, p. 14, p. 40 for an advertisement
Juhani Pallasmaa, ed., Alvar Aalto furniture, exh, cat., Museum of Finnish Architecture Finnish Society of Crafts and Design Artek, Helsinki, 1984, back cover, p. 76, fig. 103, p. 80, fig. 116, pp. 88-89, figs. 145-45, p. 126 for images and technical drawings
Michael Playford and Michael Whiteway, Alvar Aalto: furniture 1929-1939, London, 1987, n.p.
Tuula Poutasuo, ed., Finnish Industrial Design, Helsinki, 1987, p. 9, fig. 5
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Scandinavian Design, Cologne, 2002, pp. 82, 105
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ed., Alvar Aalto Designer, Vammala, 2002, pp. 18, 71, p. 165 for an image and a technical drawing
Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio: 1929-1933, exh. cat., Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, 2004, n.p. for a period images of a group of Paimio chairs in the recreation room
Thomas Kellein, Alvar & Aino Aalto: Collection Bischofberger, Zurich, 2005, front and back cover, pp. 38-39
Domus (Milan), no. 103, July 1936, p. 42 for the design exhibited at the VI Triennale; no. 435, February 1966, fig. 19, fig. 21, technical drawing; no. 440, July 1966, n.p.; no. 532, March 1974, n.p.; no. 670, March 1986, p. 65; no. 676, October 1986, p. 30; no. 697, September 1988, pp. 104-08; no. 748, April 1993, p. 77; no. 810, December 1993, pp. 43 and 45, fig. 7
‘Finmar: Furniture of the future for the home of To-day’, sales catalogue, London, 1939, p. 14, p. 40 for an advertisement
Juhani Pallasmaa, ed., Alvar Aalto furniture, exh, cat., Museum of Finnish Architecture Finnish Society of Crafts and Design Artek, Helsinki, 1984, back cover, p. 76, fig. 103, p. 80, fig. 116, pp. 88-89, figs. 145-45, p. 126 for images and technical drawings
Michael Playford and Michael Whiteway, Alvar Aalto: furniture 1929-1939, London, 1987, n.p.
Tuula Poutasuo, ed., Finnish Industrial Design, Helsinki, 1987, p. 9, fig. 5
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Scandinavian Design, Cologne, 2002, pp. 82, 105
Pirkko Tuukkanen, ed., Alvar Aalto Designer, Vammala, 2002, pp. 18, 71, p. 165 for an image and a technical drawing
Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio: 1929-1933, exh. cat., Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, 2004, n.p. for a period images of a group of Paimio chairs in the recreation room
Thomas Kellein, Alvar & Aino Aalto: Collection Bischofberger, Zurich, 2005, front and back cover, pp. 38-39
Provenance
Private collection, UK
Object
'Paimio' armchair, mod. 41/8-2
Designer
Alvar Aalto
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas
Finmar
Origin
Finland
Year
circa 1932
Design Museum Section
Finnish Design Icons
Designed by Architects
Design in Moulded Plywood
Categories
Armchairs, Lounge chairs
Designheroes ID
53932
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Moulded_plywood
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
