Aalto Table 90A
The Aalto Table 90A is one of the clearest expressions of Alvar Aalto's conviction that modern design belongs to everyday life. Its round birch top rests on the bent L-leg, a quietly revolutionary form Aalto patented in 1933. That leg, carved from a single piece of Finnish birch with a laminated bend at its base, resolved a longstanding tension between wooden furniture and structural honesty without a single metal joint.
The circular form encourages a particular kind of gathering. No head of the table. No hierarchy. Conversation moves around it freely, which was very much Aalto's intention for the social spaces of his native Finland.
- Frame and legs in solid Finnish birch
- Top available in natural birch veneer, linoleum, or laminate
- L-leg construction: Aalto's patented bent-wood joint, continuous birch with no metal hardware
- Produced by Artek, the Helsinki-based manufacturer Aalto co-founded in 1935
Artek has produced this table with little deviation from the original drawings. That fidelity is part of what makes the 90A a work of design history still in production, not a reproduction of one.
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Aalto Table 90A
The Aalto Table 90A is one of the clearest expressions of Alvar Aalto's conviction that modern design belongs to everyday life. Its round birch top rests on the bent L-leg, a quietly revolutionary form Aalto patented in 1933. That leg, carved from a single piece of Finnish birch with a laminated bend at its base, resolved a longstanding tension between wooden furniture and structural honesty without a single metal joint.
The circular form encourages a particular kind of gathering. No head of the table. No hierarchy. Conversation moves around it freely, which was very much Aalto's intention for the social spaces of his native Finland.
- Frame and legs in solid Finnish birch
- Top available in natural birch veneer, linoleum, or laminate
- L-leg construction: Aalto's patented bent-wood joint, continuous birch with no metal hardware
- Produced by Artek, the Helsinki-based manufacturer Aalto co-founded in 1935
Artek has produced this table with little deviation from the original drawings. That fidelity is part of what makes the 90A a work of design history still in production, not a reproduction of one.
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The Aalto Table 90A is one of the clearest expressions of Alvar Aalto's conviction that modern design belongs to everyday life. Its round birch top rests on the bent L-leg, a quietly revolutionary form Aalto patented in 1933. That leg, carved from a single piece of Finnish birch with a laminated bend at its base, resolved a longstanding tension between wooden furniture and structural honesty without a single metal joint.
The circular form encourages a particular kind of gathering. No head of the table. No hierarchy. Conversation moves around it freely, which was very much Aalto's intention for the social spaces of his native Finland.
- Frame and legs in solid Finnish birch
- Top available in natural birch veneer, linoleum, or laminate
- L-leg construction: Aalto's patented bent-wood joint, continuous birch with no metal hardware
- Produced by Artek, the Helsinki-based manufacturer Aalto co-founded in 1935
Artek has produced this table with little deviation from the original drawings. That fidelity is part of what makes the 90A a work of design history still in production, not a reproduction of one.
