Project

Aalto

Year

2014

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The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto is known for his enthusiastic and accessible engagement of Modern architecture and design spanning furniture, textiles and glassware. We designed a new reference book from Phaidon to reflect the warmth of Aalto’s humanistic forms, which resist more austere strands of modernism. By introducing a dynamic but ordered page layout, the book’s design allows for generous image reproductions and natural colour blocks throughout. Details of bentwood experiments by the architect adorn the outer jacket, which wraps around a casebound cover with an abstracted geometric form of Aalto’s classic Savoy Vase.