Aalto Stool 60 (L-leg bent plywood)
Taburete Aalto 60 (pata de madera curvada en L)
- Date
- 1933 · confidence medium
- Place
- Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
- Credited to
- Alvar Aalto and Otto Korhonen
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A stool with a round seat and three birch legs that bend at a right angle at the top, so they screw directly under the seat. They stack, and it was one of the first pieces of modern laminated-wood furniture.
Aalto developed the L-leg with the carpenter Otto Korhonen in Turku around 1932-1933; production began with Artek in 1935.
What it led to
- bent laminated wood as a modern furniture material
- the founding of Artek (1935) and Nordic design
- stackable mass-produced furniture