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Children's Chair N65
Alvar Aalto's Children's Chair N65: a circular seat and a low, curved birch-plywood backrest, 1935
350 × 600 × 380 mm
1935
Finland
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Description
Overview
Children's Chair N65 is a children's chair by Alvar Aalto for Artek, marked 1935. Artek describes clean lines and a simple, elemental structure: a low rectangular backrest formed from a single piece of birch plywood, and a circular seat.
Construction
The structure is solid birch for legs and edge-band, with a backrest of pressed birch plywood. Seats are cored in birch plywood or solid birch and topped with veneer, laminate, linoleum, padded fabric, padded leather or plain leather. Aalto's original L-leg system supplies the standardised components behind the design.
Specifications
- Overall size: 35 x 38 x 60 cm
- Backrest: form-pressed birch plywood
- Seat edge-band: solid birch
- Origin: Finland
Story
A backrest that follows the back
The backrest of Children's Chair N65 is a low rectangle pressed from one piece of birch plywood. Artek says its slight curve lets it form naturally to the back and offer comfort and support.
Standardised L-leg parts
Artek puts the chair together from the original L-leg system of standardised components, and the recognisable circular seat sits on top of it.
More by Alvar Aalto
Chair 611
Alvar Aalto's stackable birch chair with a linen webbing seat and back, dated 1929
Armchair 402
Alvar Aalto's cantilever armchair with a cushioned seat, shown at Milan in 1933
Chair 65
Alvar Aalto's low-backed birch chair with a round seat, dated 1935
Lounge Chair 43
Alvar Aalto's cantilevered birch lounge chair with linen webbing, dated 1937
Collection
L-leg Collection
Artek's L-leg Collection brings together 18 Alvar Aalto pieces built on the bent birch leg patented in 1933: stools, chairs, a bench, a day bed and tables.
