Chair Alvar Aalto Museum collection / loaned by the Alvar Aalto estate Designer: Alvar Aalto Designed: 1930/1932 Maker: Oy Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab This chair was at one time in Alvar Aalto's ownership and may well be a prototype. Several models have been made, each one slightly different. The first chairs of this type were probably made in 1930 and shown at the Minimum Apartment exhibition in Helsinki. In construction, they were a little more fragile than the one you see here, and were not yet suitable for production. The Swiss furniture makers Wohnbedarf took the chair into production for the Continental European market in the early 1930s. In Finland, the chair was presented as being ready to go into production in 1932 and was used in Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium.