Easy chair Alvar Aalto Museum collection / loaned by the City of Jyväskylä Designer: Alvar Aalto Designed: 1932 Maker: Oy Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab; from 1966 Huonekalutehdas Korhonen Oy "The greatest interest at the Nordic Building Forum exhibition was undoubtedly aroused by the new chair types designed by the architect Alvar Aalto and made at Kaarina near Turku by Oy Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab. These easy chairs were extremely comfortable and light, aesthetically pleasing in their appearance and close to French taste in terms of decoration. A room furnished with these, plus a couple of Modernist French pictures on the wall, would have a style and character that truly captures the spirit of the age..." Arttu Brummer, Domus 1932 no. 3, pp.70-71. Top prices have been paid for this Aalto chair at international auctions (e.g. € 23,333 in London in spring 1999). This may well be because of a certain amount of misleading information about the rarity of the chair.