Aino Aalto
Sign in to saveAlso known as Aino Marsio, Aino Mandelin, Aino Marsio-Aalto, Aino Marsio Aalto, Aino Maria Aalto-Marsio, Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto, Aino Maria Marsio, Aino Maria Mandelin
Finnish architect, designer and business leader (1894–1949)
Key facts
- Born
- Aino Maria Mandelin , 25 January 1894, Helsinki , Grand Duchy of Finland , Russian Empire
- Died
- 13 January 1949 (1949-01-13) (aged 54), Helsinki, Finland
- Other names
- Aino Marsio Aalto, Aino Aalto, Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto
- Alma mater
- Helsingin Suomalainen Tyttökoulu , Helsinki University of Technology
- Occupations
- Architect, designer
- Spouse
- Alvar Aalto ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1925 )
- Children
- 2 (Johan Henrik Hamilkar and Johanna [“Hanni”])
- Practice
- Co-founder of Artek
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maria
- Official name
- Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Place of birth
- Helsinki
- Place of death
- Helsinki
- Spouse
- Alvar Aalto
- Occupation
- glass artist
- Educated at
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Finnish
- Notable work
- Paimio Sanatorium
- Field of work
- design
- Image
- Aino-Aalto.jpg
- Work location
- Jyväskylä
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- Commons category
- Aino Aalto
- place of burial
- Hietaniemi cemetery
- date of birth
- 1894-01-25
- date of death
- 1949-01-13
- birth name
- Aino Maria Mandelin
- married name
- Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto
- has works in the collection
- Vitra Design Museum
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1502-aalto-aino
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Encyclopedic overview
Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (born Aino Maria Mandelin; 25 January 1894 – 13 January 1949) was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl of the design company Artek, collaborating on many its most well-known designs. As Artek's first artistic director, her creative output spanned textiles, lamps, glassware, and buildings. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and MoMA has included her work in nine exhibitions, the first of which was Aalto: Architecture and Furniture in 1938. Other major exhibitions were at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and Chelsea Space in London. Aino Aalto has been exhibited with Pablo Picasso.
Biography
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