produced by Artek, Sweden
birch bentwood
23⁷⁄₈ x 23⁵⁄₈ x 19⁵⁄₈ in. (60.6 x 60 x 49.8 cm.)

Heritage Auctions, Dallas, 10 December 2009, lot 73018
Acquired from the above by the present owner

J. S. Johnson, Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pp. 4-6 (for a discussion of the Paimio Sanatorium commission)
Alvar Aalto: Furniture, exh. cat., The Museum of Finnish Architecture, Cambridge, 1985, p. 75 (for a discussion of the commission); 86, no. 139 (for the exhibition of Aalto’s furniture at Fortnum and Mason’s, London, 1933 displaying this model); 91, no. 154 (for a period photograph); 126; 136, no. 209
P. Tuukkanen, ed., Alvar Aalto: Designer, exh. cat., The Alvar Aalto Museum, Helsinki, 2002, pp. 71 (for a period photograph), 168
Alvar & Aino Aalto Design: Collection Bischofberger, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Ostfildern, 2005, pp. 50-51
A.-M. Sörbergs, ed., Aalto och Artek i Hedemora, Hedemora, 2012, pp. 116, 150
Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World, exh. cat., Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2016, pp. 80, fig. 82 (for a period photograph); 102, fig. 1.2 (for a period photograph of the exhibition of Aalto’s furniture at Fortnum and Mason’s, London, 1933 displaying this model); 168, fig. 2.24 (for a period photograph of the International Exhibition Brussels, 1935, displaying this model); 202-211 (for a discussion of the commission); 250, fig. 4.11 (for a period photograph of Aalto’s house depicting this model, circa 1935); 332 (for a period photograph of the living room of the Villa Mairea depicting this model, circa 1940); 412, fig. 1 (for a period photograph of the Artek pavilion at the sixth Milan Triennial, 1936, depicting this model); 454, fig. 1 (for a period photograph of the Artek store on Fabianinkatu, Helsinki, 1936); 470, fig. 5 (“Les Salon des décorateurs,” Beaux Arts, 1937); 478, fig. 1 (for a period photograph); 484; 617, no. 75; 655, fig. 6AB (for a period photograph)
J. Stewart, Alvar Aalto: Architect, London, 2017, pp. 62-81 (for a discussion of the Paimio commission), 76 (for a period photograph)