Alvar Aalto model no.21 chair with rare karelian birch seat, Finland 1930s

A rare model 21 cantilever chair with a karelian birch moulded plywood seat. Designed in 1933, this is a 1930s chair. Manufactured by the firm O.Y. Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas A. B., Turku, Finland. 1930s. This design by Aalto actualises many of his modern ideals: the object is composed of three shaped components that are free of any ornamentation, and has an easily legible logic to its construction - The design represents Aalto at the height of his creative powers. Good stable condition with a rich honey colour. A few minor stress cracks to the plywood. The chair was re-varnished at some earlier time in its life. There was once a paper label to the centre of the top curve that once left a slight indented mark in the varnish which is still very slightly visible.