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a long hallway with benches and plants lined up against the wall next to windows on both sides

Säynätsalo Town Hall was built in the early 1950s to serve as a town hall for a municipal of only 3,000 residents. Today, the building is open to visitors and offers guest rooms for an overnight stay.

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Today we would like to take a moment to highlight ⁠ ⁠ 'Curia' - Alvar Aalto⁠ ⁠ The invitational competition for Säynätsalo Town Hall was held in 1949. Aalto won the competition with an entry marked ‘Curia’ and was immediately commissioned to prepare working drawings. Completed in 1952, the building is one of Aalto’s most admired designs.

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A cantilever chair (model no. 21) designed by Alvar Aalto in 1933 which was once upholstered in green leather-effect fabric. The fabric has now been stripped and the back curve seems to have been cut off during the upholstery process, as early as the mid 30s. There is a chance that it came from a...

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Numerous buildings testify to Alvar Aalto’s intensive design activity outside of Finland. Of the six buildings which he completed in Germany, three are to be found in the city of Wolfsburg: the Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus and two churches, Heilig-Geist-Kirche and Stephanuskirche.

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