Vintage round dining table in birch by Alvar Aalto for Artek, 1980s

Large round dining table in birch by Alvar Aalto for Artek, 1980. Designed in 1930s as a part of the iconic L-leg series. Alvar Aalto (1898 - 1976), was a Finnish architect and designer. He was part of the Modern Movement of Architecture, but he developed his own style, based on modernist architecture combined with the usage of local materials and his own personal expression. Although Aalto was from a younger generation, he is considered one of the master architects of Modern Architecture, along with Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe and Walter Gropius, and today he is recognized as one of the most important architects from that country.