Image source: Artek — Stool X602
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Stool X602
Alvar Aalto's fan-legged X-leg stool with a curly birch seat, a limited 90th-anniversary edition
455 × 450 × 450 mm
1954
Finland
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Description
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.
Image source: Artek — Stool X602 · © Artek and the respective rights holders. Quoted to accompany INTEBEE's independent design commentary and research. · View official product page ↗ · Image use & copyright policy
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
Story
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.
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