Dining room at Maison Louis Carré, contemporary designs by Esa Vesmanen and minä perhonen, photo: Yuji Ono This exhibition presents an ongoing, cross-cultural design collaboration between Finnish ...

The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is hosting a major retrospective exhibition of work by late Finnish Modernist architect and designer Alvar Aalto, a year after Vitra's acquisition of Aalto's ...

The summer’s most anticipated design and architecture event – the 8th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar, 27–28.8.2016 – brings together design professionals, students and design fans from ...

A retrospective exhibition commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of architect and designer Alvar Aalto, "Alvar Aalto - Another Nature," will be held at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book from the grandson of the celebrated Finnish architects draws on never-before-published letters and photographs to tell ...

This weekend, some of the sharpest minds in design are set to descend upon the city of Jyväskylä in Finland to take part in the 8th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar; a two-day pow-wow intended ...

Step foot on Finnish soil and it’s just a matter of time before you start to understand how significant the architect and designer Alvar Aalto is to Finnish design culture. Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) — ...

There's plenty of art to feast your eyes on in these four very different coffee table books. Presented in reverse chronological order, we move back in time from Art is Art — a fabulous collection of ...

Young Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto were considering a design directive far ahead of their time back in 1929: wellness. Alvar—who worked closely with his wife—had won a commission to create ...

Artek, the legendary furniture firm co-founded by Alvar Aalto, is finally landing on American shores: The company has opened its first-ever American showroom, and, rather than relying on distributors, ...