Artek was the Helsinki furniture store set up by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Halh in 1935. Aalto had been well established in Britain since his furniture was first...
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Artek was the Helsinki furniture store set up by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Halh in 1935. Aalto had been well established in Britain since his furniture was first shown at an exhibition in Fortnum and Mason in 1934. His style matches an idiosyncratic personal vision to an interest in mass production.
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