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Alvar Aalto 阿爾瓦．阿爾托
Stool X602 凳 X602
1954, made late 1950s
The Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto designed Stool X602 in 1954 for Artek, a manufacturing company he co-founded in the 1930s. A variant of similar models X600 and X601, the hexagonal stool sits on three fan-shaped supports, nicknamed ‘X’ legs, which evolved from a technique Aalto patented earlier in his career. To obtain the shape, the sides of five ‘L’ legs first used in his iconic Stool 60—made up of layered birch and glued veneer heated and bent to ninety degrees—are sawed at an angle and joined. The result is durable and delicate, taking advantage of the material efficiency of composite wood while referencing natural and feminine forms.
Distributed equally around the hexagon’s perimeter, the legs affix to the seat with dowels. The seat itself may be covered in veneer or upholstered, as seen in this example, where its abstract, angular geometry contrasts with the supple black leather. Though mass produced, the X602 involves a more intensive fabrication process than Aalto’s minimal early furniture; in this sense, it is characteristic of his less functionalist, more idiosyncratic later practice.
Distributed equally around the hexagon’s perimeter, the legs affix to the seat with dowels. The seat itself may be covered in veneer or upholstered, as seen in this example, where its abstract, angular geometry contrasts with the supple black leather. Though mass produced, the X602 involves a more intensive fabrication process than Aalto’s minimal early furniture; in this sense, it is characteristic of his less functionalist, more idiosyncratic later practice.
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