TANKKI – the chair and two maestros
Exhibition, Finlandia Hall, July 15 – September 2The exhibitions tells the story which started in the end of 1920s as a young talented architect by the name of Alvar Aalto met a carpenter Otto Korhonen and they got acquainted. That was the start of a highly succesfull collaboration. Aalto did the designwork and Korhonen created the necessary technology – new equipment and new working methods. Finnish industrial art had taken a long step forward as had Finnish carpentry craftmanship.
Otto Korhonen had the pioneering and innovative spirit and good taste in addition to technical skill that Aalto had been looking for. There is no doubt that if it had not been for Otto Korhonen, the birth of the Finnish philosophy of living and designing interiors would have been a great deal more painful.
Armchair 400, an Alvar Aalto design icon also known as the Tank, was presented at the Milan Triennial in 1936. The Tank is one of Aalto's most successful designs. It is included in the permanent collection of MoMa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Opening hours
15.7.-15.8. Mon-Fri 10-15
16.8.-2.9. Mon-Fri 10-15, Sat-Sun 11-15
Entrance fee 5/3/0 €
Entrance Door M4
