Saturday, June 19, 2010

Breaking My Heart

1. Alvar Aalto (book via the museum library)

2. Arne Jacobsen.

Last Wednesday we visited the Danish Museum of Art and Design. There we learned that at least 4 bestselling pieces of Ikea furniture are direct copies of Alvar Aalto's work. (Their geometry modified for the support of crap materials). The saddest part is that the people buying the chairs don't even know.

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