Alvar Aalto: A Life's Work: Architecture, Design and Art by Goran Schildt ISBN 13: 9789511129752

Finland 1994. One of the masters of modern architecture, Aalto (1898-1976), was a prolific and influential architect, a gifted painter, and a talented, world-renowned designer. In this comprehensive grand book his known works from the early 1920s to his final designs in the 1970s are presented and described. With the full cooperation of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, Schildt has explored its archives, and some 20,000 letters, memoranda and contemporary newspaper cuttings as well as many building models, to ensure that every work is included in this volume. It contains full descriptions, accompanied by abundant illustrations, of all of Aalto’s realized and unrealized architectural projects: regional and urban plans, churches, theatres, libraries, museums, office and factory buildings, public housing, and private residences. Plans and elevations included., English, Year1994, Illust. B/W533, Illust. Color23, ISBN 9511129759, Code 5887. Clothbound with Jacket, In Pristine Condition, Bibl. Cat. of… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Kunstannusosakeyhtio Otava Printing Works, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine introduction to the Finnish architect, designer and painter, born in 1898 and died in 1976, presenting nearly his complete works in a single volume. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in gray cloth over boards, with black stamped lettering (Aalto's name, in cursive) to cover, sharp and distinct black lettering to spine). Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Plentiful descriptions with illustrations of realized and unrealized projects, drawings, musings on urban and regional plans, interiors of churches, houses, theatres, libraries, studios, museums, offices, factories, residential and apartment buildings and other kinds of… Read More