Chaise longue Alvar Aalto Museum collection / loaned by Oy Artek Ab Designer: Alvar Aalto Designed: 1936 Maker: Oy Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab "AS well as all the well-known Aalto chairs, there were a couple of rather interesting new ones. A huge reclining chair upholstered in special fabric...However, the chair seemed perhaps to be a little clumsy and over-dimensioned in comparison with Artek's usually slender and graceful vocabulary of form." Arkkitehti (The Finnish Architectural Review) 1937, p. 36 Sisustus ja Huonekalumessut (Interior design and furniture exhibition), Helsinki, September 11-19, 1937. An upholstered version of this chair was shown at this particular exhibition. The exact year this chair was given its present-day, lighter look is not known. Perhaps the criticism in Arkkitehti had some influence in the matter.