Aino Aalto
Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (born
Aino Maria Mandelin; 25 January 1894 – 13 January 1949) was a
Finnish architect and a pioneer of
Scandinavian design. She is known as a co-founder of the design company
Artek and as a collaborator on 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.
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