Paimio chair

[ pahy-mee-oh ]

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noun

a chair developed by Alvar Aalto between 1930 and 1933, having two continuous, ribbonlike elements made of bent laminated birch veneers forming the arms and legs and supporting a sheet of bent plywood that forms the back and seat.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Paimio chair¹

After Paimio, Finland, site of a sanitorium which Aalto was designing when the chair was developed

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In the same year, Alvar Aalto made drawings of chairs whose seats and backs were a single piece of molded wood, quickly followed by the first prototype, as well as the Paimio chair and three-legged stool.

From

Other pieces could be majestic, almost abstract, especially his Paimio chair, designed for a Finnish tuberculosis sanitarium in 1931-32.

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pai-loo pain

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