Alto stools?

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diors

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18/10/2010 11:03 pm

I'm pretty new to this forum, and I hope it's alright to start another thread on the Aalto stool 60. I learned a lot from the others, but I think I have a slightly different animal here.

This stool has four screws like Lucifer Sum's stool in photos posted in Dec '08 but unlike Lucifer's it has Made in Sweden mark. I hope you can see from the photos that it has a warm tone; someone might have stained it, but it didn't bleed into the felt stoppers, so maybe not. I have another stool, which has the same profile and Sweden mark but it a completely different tone. I can post photos of the others, which in addition to the color of wood, have a lot of loss in the top veneer, so might be instructive.

Thanks for your comments!

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19/10/2010 12:34 am

Not Aalto
But a nice vintage copy. You are right, it has been stained. Should be a light birch color (usually with a honey patina from age). I've had these before, and they are nice well made stools and quite useful, but not Aalto.

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uasrem2

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19/10/2010 1:59 am

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a handy plant stand...

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19/10/2010 7:26 am

Hmmm
I was under the impression that these were early Aalto pieces? There is the patented leg design, and his early works were manufactured in Sweden.

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