It used to be that the most natural parts of a tree never made the final cut when creating the Stool 60. But a new incarnation has changed that.
3.6 kilograms, Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 punches way above its weight. First, as an icon of streamlined Scandi design; now, as the incarnation of sustainable thinking in action.
Flatpackable and infinitely reproducible with negligible variation since timber was selected for its uniformity, the seating system is the epitome of the modernist grail: mass-producible, standardised industrial production. And in that perfection lay what today can be perceived as its flaw. In the quest for uniformity – that the finish should be as “even and immaculate as possible, more assimilating to plastics than to natural material”, says Artek managing director Marianne Goebl – the company was effectively using only a small percentage of each felled tree.
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