112B Wall Shelf
112 Wall Shelf employs lamella loops as brackets to support a substantial birch veneer panel. The particular lamella loops used in the creation of Wall Shelf 112 require the strength of two people to bend them into shape and come with a single seam. The brackets can be placed both below and above the panel, in which case they also serve as bookends. Elegant and practical, this wall shelf displays designer Alvar Aalto’s affinity with natural materials.
Specification
Drawn from the maker's CAD model. CAD files available on request.
- Available in natural, black or white birch
- Brackets: Form-bent solid birch lamella
- Shelf core: Solid birch frame, birch plywood, honeycomb
- Shelf surface: Birch veneer
- Brackets: Birch, clear lacquer
- Shelf: Birch, clear lacquer
Artek
Artek was founded in Helsinki in 1935 by Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl, to sell furniture and to promote a modern culture of living.
Alvar Aalto
One of the founding figures of modern architecture. With his wife Aino, Aalto designed the furniture for his own buildings, the Paimio Sanatorium and the Viipuri Library. Bending Finnish birch, he gave modernism a warmer, more human material.
