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Children's Stool NE60
Alvar Aalto's Children's Stool NE60: four solid birch legs under a round seat, stackable, 1934
380 × 380 × 380 mm
1934
Finland
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Description
Overview
Children's Stool NE60 is a four-legged children's stool by Alvar Aalto for Artek, marked 1934. Artek considers it the most elemental piece of furniture: the legs attach right under the seat and need no complicated connecting elements.
Construction
Four solid-birch legs and a solid-birch seat edge-band carry the round seat, which is cored in solid birch or birch plywood. Its top can be birch veneer, laminate or linoleum, or fabric or leather upholstery. The stool stacks and belongs to the original L-leg system of standardised components.
Specifications
- Overall size: 38 x 38 x 38 cm
- Legs: four, solid birch
- Stacking: yes
- Origin: Finland
Story
The most elemental piece
Artek calls Children's Stool NE60 hardwearing and versatile. In its words the stool is the most elemental of furniture pieces, since the legs attach straight onto the round seat.
A spiralling tower
The stool's geometry lets one stool sit on another, and Artek pictures the stack as a spiralling tower sculpture. The stool draws on Aalto's L-leg parts, with solid birch for the four legs and the seat edge-band.
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.
