Aino and Aruba Aalto Architecture, Design and Life Revolution
Technology Innovation and furniture design of wood bending ※Extended exhibition!

Finland's leading architect Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino explored a unique answer to Modernism with designs incorporating natural motifs based on Finnish environmental characteristics. Works realized in the competition, such as "Pi Mio Sasada" (1933), will push them up to the stage of architects around the world, and furniture designed for architecture will set the path for the establishment of Artec later. In this exhibition, we will focus on the technology of bent wood by Aalto and his wife, and bend solid wood in an L-shaped shape. – We will follow the path from molding to commercialization with regard to the development of leg and lamera bending wood using laminated plywood.

Period

From March 28 (Sat) to June 7 (Sun), 2020 Sunday, August 30
※The exhibition period will be extended.

Venue

Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1F Hall

Holding time

From 9:30 to 16:30 (entrance until 16:00)
※Currently, the opening hours have been changed.
<Amorning> 9: 30~12: 00 (admission until 11:30)
<Afternoon> 13:00 ~ 16:00 (admission until 15:30)

Closed days

Monday (or the next day if it is a national holiday)

Admission fee

500 yen for general, 300 yen for Odaka students, 300 yen for junior high school students and younger, 200 yen for those aged 65 and over (including Permanent exhibition viewing fee)

Sponsorship

Gallery acquad

Co-sponsored

Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum

Special Cooperation

Aalto Family Collection, Alvar Aalto Foundation

Cooperation

Altec, Finair, Finair Cargo, Iittala

Sponsorship

Finnish Embassy, Finnish Center

Planning

Gallery acquad

Planning and cooperation

S2 Corporation

※This exhibition and the exhibition currently being held at Gallery Akuwad is a pre-planning exhibition of "Aino and Aruba Two Aalto" scheduled to be held in 2021 at Setagaya Art Museum and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.