Bar Stool 64

Name: Bar Stool 64
Brand: Artek

Alvar Aalto's symmetrical birch bar stool with a foot ring, in 65 and 75 cm, 1935

Designer

Alvar Aalto

Brand

Artek

Dimensions

545 × 750 × 545 mm

Seat / Notes

Source: technical drawing image — Bar Stool 64, 75 cm — published as W 54.5 × D 54.5 × H 75 cm

Year

1935

Origin

Finland

Reference price

EUR 610 from, birch seat, either height (EUR 640 with white HPL or black linoleum seat, EUR 667 lacquered), shop.artek.fi, 2026-10-14

Materials

Solid birch (legs and seat edge-band)Form-pressed solid birch lamella (foot ring)Solid birch or birch plywood (seat core)Birch veneer, high-pressure laminate or linoleum (seat surface)

Finishes

Birch, clear lacquerWhite lacquerBlack lacquer

Colors

Seat: birch, clear lacquerSeat: linoleum, blackSeat: birch, HPL, IKI whiteSeat: birch, black lacquerSeat: birch, white lacquer

Official page

Description

Overview

Bar Stool 64 is Alvar Aalto's bar stool, marked 1935 on Artek's page, in two heights, 65 cm and 75 cm. It is symmetrical and non-directional and has a birch foot ring.

Bar Stool 64 beside a wooden unit with rolls of paper on top, in a studio

Construction

Legs and edge-band are birch, and the foot ring is a pressed lamella of solid birch.

Specifications

Width: 54.5 cm; height: 75 cm (75 cm version; read by position, not labelled on the drawing)
Heights: 65 cm and 75 cm
Versions: sixteen on the page
Origin: Finland

Story

Always the right way round

Artek's page says Bar Stool 64 is symmetrical and non-directional, so it is always positioned the right way.

In use

The page places it in kitchens, cafes, bars and at countertops, and one of its captions reads "High dining at the Uppetite Restaurant, Brussels". Its other caption places a clear-lacquered birch version in Aalto's studio in Munkkiniemi.

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