La poltrona Paimio di Alvar Aalto | N° 41 | Design del prodotto industriale

#paimio #alvaraalto #design #stefanopasotti Armchair 41, also known as Paimio, is an armchair designed by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino. It was designed as part of the Paimio hospital project in Finland The chair is part of the permanent collection of the MoMA in New York and the Finnish Design Museum in Helsinki. Let's start from the beginning: In 1928 Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino had won the competition for the design of the sanatorium in the Finnish city of Paimio, While the building was under construction, the couple were also in charge of designing the furnishings. And so what to do: initially they had thought of using the tubular steel furniture of the Bauhaus (they were in possession, for example, of the Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer) but they realized that it was not suitable for such an environment. Also because the couple wanted to give a product that was linked to the territory and traditions. So they began to work with wood, and began to experiment with different shapes, but above all the technology that concerns the bending of plywood. This point is fundamental, and it was the technology that inspired many designers for the realization of their projects ... And when I say different designers, I'm not talking about unknown designers who have done little experiments, I'm talking about people like the couple Charles and Ray Eames who have changed the face of modern design. To bend the plywood as it was thought by Alvar Aalto and his wife, very thin wood sheets are needed which are positioned one above the other with the wood grain opposite each other, in such a way as to avoid that they can fold between them. Between these sheets there is a natural glue. Once this sandwich of wooden sheets has been made, it is placed under a press that gives it a certain shape that depends on what we want to obtain. Once the glue has solidified, our product is removed, which is a semi-finished product that must be finished later. Obviously this is a technique they have used. There is also the possibility of fractional only a portion of solid wood to create small cuts that will only be used to curve that portion. Here we get into amazing traditional Finnish craft techniques. The first examples they made were exhibited in 1929 on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Turku. By 1933 the sanatorium had been completed and both architectural and furniture designs were exhibited in London. In 1934 the furniture was already on sale in the Zurich Wohnbedarf catalog, but the couple wanted to give a different image of the product. And so they founded Artek, a company that mainly dealt with the production of wooden products designed by the same couple. The company still exists today. Among other things, this chair is still on sale along with many projects made by the couple. There are two different versions on a structural level, then there are many others in terms of color. The first version is an armchair and therefore it is very stable and designed to be silent. The second is a Paimio 42 Small, a seat with the same concept, but the seat is cantilevered, a bit like the Panton seat arrived several years later. However, it is nice to observe them to understand how extremely fluid they are with each other. Subscribe to my channel here https: //    / stefanopasottidesignstudio   Visit my website http://www.stefanopasotti.com Follow me also on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stefanopasot... Follow me also on instagram   / stefano.pasotti_designer   You can also find me on LinkedIn   / stefano-pasotti-99860715   Here you will find the link where to buy my SAM bottle opener https://amzn.to/391MZzA