Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career ran in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the 20th century. Many of his clients were industrialists, among them the Ahlström-Gullichsen family, who became his patrons. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.
Saarinen is a Finnish surname of Virtanen type derived from the word 'saari', "island". Notable people with the surname include:
Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl of the design company Artek, collaborating on many its most well-known designs. As Artek's first artistic director, her creative output spanned textiles, lamps, glassware, and buildings. It has been discovered that it was Aino who completed the first work commissioned through Artek which was the Viipuri Library in 1935. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and MoMA has included her work in nine exhibitions. Aino Aalto’s first exhibition was Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibitions: Design for Use at MoMA in 1944. Other major exhibitions were at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and Chelsea Space in London. Aino Aalto has been exhibited with Pablo Picasso.
Artek is a Finnish furniture company. It was founded in December 1935 by architect Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino Aalto, visual arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl. The founders chose a non-Finnish name: the neologism Artek was meant to manifest the desire to combine art and technology. This echoed a main idea of the International Style movement, especially the Bauhaus, to emphasize the technical expertise in production and quality of materials, instead of historical-based, eclectic or frivolous ornamentation.
Aaltonen is a Finnish surname, a Virtanen type analog of Aalto. Notable people with the surname include:
Eero is an Estonian and Finnish masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Koskinen is a surname of Virtanen type originating in Finland, where it is the ninth most common surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heikkinen is the eighth most common Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Borland is a surname of Scottish origin. The Borland ancestors came to Scotland with the Normans in the 11th Century.
Hruška is a Czech and Slovak occupational surname, which means a grower or seller of pears, from hruška ("pear"). The name may refer to:
Aho is a Finnish Laine type surname meaning "glade". Notable people with the surname include:
Rosa is a surname with multiple etymologies. In Italian and Catalan, it means "rose" (flower). It is also a Portuguese and Spanish language surname. Variants include Da Rosa or da Rosa, De Rosa or de Rosa, and DeRosa or DaRosa. In Polish, Czech, and Slovak, it means "dew".
Kollar or Kollár is a surname derived from Proto-Slavic *kolarь ("wheelwright"). It is a cognate of Kolar, Kolář (Czech), Kolár (Slovak), and Kolarz (Polish).
Vallin or Vallín is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Markkanen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pesonen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lindholm is a Swedish surname, meaning "Linden Islet". People with the surname include:
Ostrobothnians are a subgroup (heimo) of the Finnish people who live in the areas of the historical province of Ostrobothnia in the northwestern parts of Finland.
Niemi is a Finnish surname of Laine type literally meaning "peninsula".
