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 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. 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, the first of which was ''Aalto: Architecture and Furniture'' in 1938. 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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