Editing Alvar Aalto (section)

==Furniture career==
[[File:Wolfsonian-FIU Museum - IMG 8234.JPG|thumb|Paimio chair]] 
[[File:Aalto_kruk.jpg|thumb|Model 60 stacking stools]]
Although Aalto was famous for his architecture, his furniture designs were admired and are still popular today. He studied with the architect-designer [[Josef Hoffmann]] at the [[Wiener Werkstätte]](engl.: "Vienna Workshop") and worked, for a time, under [[Eliel Saarinen]].<ref name=Boy/> He also drew inspiration from [[Gebrüder Thonet]].<ref name=Boy/> During the late 1920s and 1930s, he worked closely with Aino Aalto on his furniture designs, a focus due in part to his decision to design many of the individual furniture pieces and lamps for the Paimio Sanatorium. Of particular significance was the Aaltos' experimentation in bent plywood chairs, most notably the so-called Paimio chair, designed for tuberculosis patients, and the [[Model 60 stacking stool]]. The Aaltos, together with visual arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl, founded the [[Artek (company)|Artek]] company in 1935, ostensibly to sell Aalto products but which also imported pieces by other designers.<ref>{{harvnb|Pallasmaa|1998|p=19}}</ref> Aalto became the first furniture designer to use the cantilever principle in chair designs using wood.<ref name=Boy/>