Stool X602

Overview

Stool X602 is a three-legged stool by Alvar Aalto that Artek dates 1954. It is a limited edition made for Artek's 90th anniversary, with a hexagonal seat top in curly birch veneer.

Construction

The three fan-shaped X-legs are solid birch; each X-leg is made from five wedge-cut pieces of L-legs. The seat top is a curly birch veneer applied with a marquetry technique. Two models exist, one entirely honey-stained and one with clear-lacquered legs.

Specifications

• Width x depth x height: 45.5 x 45 x 45 cm (by position on the drawing; the height is not labelled)
• Legs: solid birch
• Seat top: curly birch veneer
• Edition: ninety of each model, individually numbered
• Made in Finland

The X-leg of 1954

Artek says the fan-shaped X-leg was first shown at Nordiska Kompaniet's Konstruktiv Form exhibition of Artek furniture in Stockholm in 1954, and that it grew out of the L-leg Aalto developed with the master carpenter Otto Korhonen.

A gem from the archive

For its 90th anniversary Artek brings Stool X602 into the collection only as a limited edition of ninety stools per model; both variants on the page belong to that edition.