
Villa Mairea
1939
Modernism
single family house
Industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen, owners of the Ahlström timber and paper conglomerate, asked Alvar Aalto in 1937 for an experimental country house at Noormarkku that would test ideas about modern living without the cost…
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- 1939
Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto
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