Finnish architect Aalto's designs on display

Xinhua News Agency;  May 10, 2005 ;     154 words ...Finnish architect Aalto's designs on display BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Designs by the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto went on display here Tuesday, at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing. The show includes more than 90 pieces -- models...

SWECO acquires Finnish architect firm Paatela-Paatela & Co.(Brief Article)

Nordic Business Report;  June 30, 2005 ;     123 words ...NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-30 June 2005-SWECO acquires Finnish architect firm Paatela-Paatela & Co(C)1994-2005 M2...SWECO FFNS Arkitekter had agreed to acquire the Finnish architect firm Paatela-Paatela & Co. SWECO FFNS Arkitekter...

bentwood

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms;    MICHAEL CLARKE and DEBORAH CLARKE;   37 words ...bentwood Plywood furniture shaped in rod or, more frequently, sheet form and bent under steam heat into curves. It was first developed in the early 19th century in the USA, though a number of 20th-century designers have also utilized it.

THE METAL IS NOT OUT OF PLACE: IT IS THE COLOUR OF AUTUMN LEAVES WHICH...

The Architects' Journal;  September 21, 2006 ;   Salmon, Andrew;   787 words ...SAMI RINTALA/ELEMENT HOUSE Sami Rintala is a Finnish architect and artist who has gained a reputation for his...of a mountain on the outskirts of Anyang, that Finnish architect Sami Rintala was invited, in late 2005, to create...

Bent Ply: the Art of Plywood Furniture.

Interior Design;  December 1, 2003 ;   Abercrombie, Stanley;   97 words ......pages, 141 illustrations (125 color) Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames play starring roles in this detailed history of plywood furniture, though outstanding examples stretch as far back as a Gerald Summers armchair of 1933, Jean Prouve's Standard chair of...

This other Eden.(poem)

Hecate;  November 1, 1998 ;   Lennox, Rowena;   187 words ......Cars, roads, other houses, verges, gutters, eucalyptus, plywood furniture, pastel walls, plaster, fibro, cement, glass shards in...cars, roads, other houses, verges, gutters, eucalyptus, plywood furniture, pastel walls, plaster, fibro, cement, glass shards on...

Home Life: Designer double - Aalto stool.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  March 18, 2000 ;   White, Lawrence;   92 words ...FINNISH architect Alvar Aalto is one of the most influential designers of the 20th Century. Although most of his work was done in the twenties and...

ARTIST, DESIGNER BY NATURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT SAARINEN CARRIES ON HER...

Rocky Mountain News;  August 5, 2004 ;   Linda Black, Special to the News;   712 words ......trail in modern furniture design. She sits on a stool by Finnish architect and furniture designer Alvar Aalto. And a slab of redwood...show a visitor a photograph. Saarinen's grandfather was Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, who designed the Hel-sinki railway station...

Design for living; 8: Aino glassware

The Independent - London;  August 5, 2001 ;   Fiona Rattray;   339 words ......with Aino Aalto, wife of Alvar. Aino (1894-1949, below), an architect, met her future husband when she went to work at the Finnish architect's studio in 1924. Alvar grew famous, with his glass Aalto or Savoy vase becoming a 20th- century design icon. And it's...

Finn winner

The Independent - London;  May 31, 1995 ;   Amanda Baillieu;   79 words ...Finn winner Juha Leiviska, a Finnish architect, has won the Carslberg Architectural Prize, worth 200,000 Ecu (about pounds 166,000). Leiviska beat off strong competition worldwide...

A is for Aalto: an exhibition in London on Alvar Aalto reveals the humane...

Apollo;  May 1, 2007 ;   Stamp, Gavin;   787 words ......you are stacked first on the library shelf. But that is not the reason why there is so much published on the 20th-century Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, nor why his work has been so highly regarded and so influential. Most of it is in Finland (although there...

JUHANI KATAINEN/ACE.(Architects Council of Europe)(Brief article)

European Report;  December 10, 2007 ;     80 words ...Finnish architect Juhani Katainen has been elected President of the Architects' Council of Europe (ACE) by its General Assembly for a two-year period...

FINNISH ARCHITECT TO DISCUSS SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN LECTURE FOR...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 30, 2007 ;     420 words ......the first lecture of the spring 2007 semester at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning and Design. Finnish architect Mikko Heikkinen will present the slide illustrated lecture "Shades of Green: Case Studies on Sustainability in Architecture...

IN TOWN

Minnesota Monthly;  September 1, 2008 ;   Anonymous;   285 words ......Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts when Shaping the Future, an international touring exhibit of the Finnish architect's work cruises into town. The major retrospective includes never-before-seen drawings, models, photos, furnishings, films...

(book review)

Book;  January 1, 2001 ;   Koenig, Dan;   199 words ......Book and the memoir The Blue Suite, writes in his latest novel about the adventuresome, passionate life and times of a Finnish architect named Esko. Set in Finland around the time of the Russian Revolution and later in 1920s New York, the book is as much a...