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Aino Aalto

1894 - 1949

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Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (born Aino Maria Mandelin; 25 January 1894 – 13 January 1949) was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl of the design company Artek, collaborating on many its most well-known designs. As Artek's first artistic director, her creative output spanned textiles, lamps, glassware, and buildings. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and MoMA has included her work in nine exhibitions, the first of which was Aalto: Architecture and Furniture in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aino Aalto is the 132nd most popular architect (down from 106th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Finland (down from 38th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Architect.

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Among architects, Aino Aalto ranks 132 out of 518. Before her are Filippo Juvarra, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, James Stirling, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Sverre Fehn, and Gunnar Asplund. After her are Pier Luigi Nervi, Philibert de l'Orme, Juan de Herrera, Carlo Scarpa, Max Bill, and Hans Scharoun.

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Among people born in 1894, Aino Aalto ranks 57. Before her are Bessie Smith, Leo Kanner, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Anton Mussert, Percy Spencer, and Ernst Lindemann. After her are Américo Tomás, Walter Warlimont, Hans Kramers, Lothar von Richthofen, Boris Lyatoshinsky, and Frank Borzage. Among people deceased in 1949, Aino Aalto ranks 45. Before her are Henry McMahon, Valentino Mazzola, José Clemente Orozco, John Haigh, Béla Balázs, and Joaquín Turina. After her are Hans Pfitzner, Ulrich Salchow, Ellery Harding Clark, Yoshijirō Umezu, Alice Bailey, and Husni al-Za'im.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Aino Aalto ranks 54 out of 751. Before her are Jari Litmanen (1971), Heikki Hasu (1926), Liisi Oterma (1915), Eliel Saarinen (1873), Hugo Simberg (1873), and Matti Nykänen (1963). After her are Armi Kuusela (1934), Peter Forsskål (1732), Hannu Mikkola (1942), Marco Hietala (1966), Georg Henrik von Wright (1916), and Aimo Cajander (1879).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Finland

Among architects born in Finland, Aino Aalto ranks 3. Before her are Alvar Aalto (1898), and Eliel Saarinen (1873). After her are Eero Saarinen (1910), Eero Aarnio (1932), Elissa Aalto (1922), Lars Sonck (1870), Wivi Lönn (1872), Johan Sigfrid Sirén (1889), and Marco Casagrande (1971).

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