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Alvar Aalto 阿爾瓦．阿爾托
Stool 60 凳 60
1933, made circa 1936
Stool 60 is a three-legged stool designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in 1933. Its legs are moulded into an ‘L’ shape through a twenty-five-step technique patented by Aalto: thin slits are cut into one end of a piece of dried birch and are then filled with sheets of glued veneer; when heated, this layered composite can be bent into any angle. To finish the stool, the legs are simply screwed to the bottom of a round seat. Its three legs and minimal shape make the stool especially easy to stack, saving storage space for both manufacturer and owner.
One of many examples of bent-wood seating developed by Aalto, Stool 60 advanced the architect’s interest in furniture whose aesthetics emerged from contemporary manufacturing methods. Its distinctive pale-yellow wood is both structurally stable and visually warm, enriching the formal vocabulary of an internationalising early modernism. By 1935, Aalto began fabricating the stool with Artek, a company he co-founded with several collaborators, including his wife, the architect Aino Aalto. With many variations in colour and finish, Stool 60 is still in mass production today.
One of many examples of bent-wood seating developed by Aalto, Stool 60 advanced the architect’s interest in furniture whose aesthetics emerged from contemporary manufacturing methods. Its distinctive pale-yellow wood is both structurally stable and visually warm, enriching the formal vocabulary of an internationalising early modernism. By 1935, Aalto began fabricating the stool with Artek, a company he co-founded with several collaborators, including his wife, the architect Aino Aalto. With many variations in colour and finish, Stool 60 is still in mass production today.
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