When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined building must have looked like an emissary from the future, set down in a forest of fragrant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book from the grandson of the celebrated Finnish architects draws on never-before-published letters and photographs to tell ...

“Companies are like great buildings,” says Nina Stritzler-Levine, a scholar and gallery director at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. “If you don’t have the right patron and leadership, the ...

Jyväskylä, a city whose status as the center of Finnish culture and academia during the nineteenth century earned it the nickname “the Athens of Finland,” awarded Alvar Aalto the contract to design a ...

You could be forgiven for finding that the Finnish town of Jyvaskyla presents something of a pronunciation challenge. It's easier by far to make sense of the buildings created there by the great ...

It would be an honour for any architect to be able to have their their work embellish an Alvar Aalto construction. So when entries opened for a competition for international architects to design the ...

London's Barbican Centre, celebrating its 25th birthday this year, has hosted many exhibitions dedicated to design and architecture: British furniture designers Robin and Lucienne Day were celebrated ...

One of Finnish modern architect Alvar Aalto‘s famous designs is the Hand Grenade pendant light from 1952. Its sleek cylinder within a cylinder doesn’t look particularly like the explosive device, but ...

The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is hosting a major retrospective exhibition of work by late Finnish Modernist architect and designer Alvar Aalto, a year after Vitra's acquisition of Aalto's ...

Continuing on our exploration of the must-visit Modernist architectural masterpieces to visit in and around Paris, today we’ll look at the Maison Louis Carré about forty minutes south west of Paris.

Streetwear brand Supreme has released its own version of the Alvar Aalto 400 Tank chair, covered in a custom-made fabric based on Robert Indiana's iconic Love artwork. The 400 Tank chair, which the ...

The annual Co.Design gift guide is here to brighten up your holiday shopping in the strangest of all years with 43 creative and unique ideas. There was something of the occult in the way people talked ...