Aalto stool E60, pale blue - honey

Stool E60, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1934, is one of the most iconic products of Finnish furniture design. The four-legged E60 stool was designed to complement the three-legged version designed a year earlier. During its history, several million pieces of Aalto's stools have been sold around the world.

Artek’s E60 stool is stained in a honey shade, which beautifully accentuates the wood grains of the birch stool. The stool seat is painted with a sleek pale blue colour, which adds a big pop of colour to the interiors. The E60 stool makes a great spare chair for your home decor. It can also be used as a convenient side table next to a sofa or armchair in the living room and as a bedside table in the bedroom. The stools can also be stacked as an eye-catching tower to save space when not in use.

The E60 stool’s revolutionary L-leg structure was a sensation in the design world of its time, and it created a major boost for all the modern Scandinavian design. Alvar Aalto, together with carpenter Otto Korhonen, began experimenting with bending solid wood already in the late 1920s. The collaboration resulted in an L-leg, which became to be the standard component for Aalto’s furniture design and based on the invention also Y-leg and X-leg were later developed.

Alvar Aalto

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Artek was founded in 1935 by four young idealists – Alvar and Aino Aalto, Nils-Gustav Hahl and Maire Gullichsen published a design manifesto inspired by functionalism, stating that Artek’s aim was “to sell furniture and to promote modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and other means”. Since its foundation, Artek has played in the intersection of design, architecture, and art, making Finnish design and Alvar Aalto's furniture known all over the world.