Artek Aalto Stacking Stool 60 - Orange NYC GIft This side table’s top surface

This side table’s top surface is made from birch veneer

His collaboration with Herman Miller began when one of his designs was used to illustrate George Nelson’s article

This richly illustrated publication presents more than forty-five architectural contributions—from Eleanor Raymond and Mária Telkes’s groundbreaking work on solar houses to Buckminster Fuller’s world resource management system and the environmental symbolism of Emilio Ambasz—to explore the role designers played in both promoting the ecological cause and in outlining the very terms of their nascent field

With contributions by Julie Ault

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Artek Aalto Stacking Stool 60 - Orange NYC GIft This side table’s top surfaceThis seemingly simple stool, an object in MoMA's collection, features what Alvar Aalto deemed his most important contribution to furniture design: the L shaped leg. The Aalto Stool 60's design provides a smooth visual transition from leg to top and is structurally sound. In addition to being featured in MoMA's collection, this stool was displayed in Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism, a career retrospective mounted by the Museum's