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

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino explored a unique answer to Modernism with a design incorporating natural motifs based on Finnish environmental characteristics. Works realized in the competition, such as "Pai Mio Sanatorium" (1933), will instantly push them into the stage of architects around the world, and the furniture designed for architecture will pave the way for the establishment of Artek later. In this exhibition, we will focus on the technology of bending trees by Mrs. Aalto and Mrs. Aalto, and the development of "L-leg" bending solid wood into an L-shaped shape and "Lamera bending wood" using laminated plywood will follow the path from molding to commercialization.

Exhibition Period

From March 28 (Sat) to June 7 (Sun), August 30 (Sun), 2020
※We will extend the session.

Venue

Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1F Hall

Hours

9:30 to 16:30 (entrance is until 16:00)
※We are currently changing the opening hours.
<Morning> 9:30 to 12:00 (entry until 11:30)
<afternoon> 13:00 to 16:00 (entry until 15:30)

Closed

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

Admission

General 500 yen, Odaka 300 yen, junior high school students and younger 200 yen (including Permanent exhibition viewing fee)

Organizer

Gallery equad

Co-sponsorship

Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum

Special cooperation

Aalto Family Collection, Alvar Aalto Foundation

Cooperation

Artek, Finnair, Finnair Cargo, Iittala

Support

Finnish Embassy, Finnish Centre

Project

Gallery equad

Planning cooperation

S2 Corporation

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