Artek - Trolley 901

 

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The Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto shall be deemed to be the pioneer of the laminated wood processing. Influenced by the German Bauhaus he experimented with this material since 1927. The designer who called his style as always “Bio-functionalism” alluding to his fondness to organic and smooth forms, founded the Artek Company in Helsinki in the year 1935 with his wife Aino. Artek still produces and provides Aalto’s timeless designs today. Not at least his invention of a new bending method enabled his success, with his method Alvar Aalto manufactured the first self-supporting wooden chair frames, he patented it in the same year.

The frame of the patented rolling side table 901 appears reversed and in a slightly different proportion than the legendary Paimio-Chair 41. Both pieces of furniture were designed by Alvar Aalto for the Paimio sanatorium. Although Alvar Aalto designed the chair five years before he designed the trolley (1936), but both wear the unmistakable handwriting of the creator. The trolley with the practical linoleum boards – a Scandinavian speciality – also takes place in the Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä, intended for regular expositions. The big brother from the trolley 901 (the trolley 900) has a shorter board and an open basket instead of the deposit board under the fret.

The frame of the trolley 901 consists of bright lacquered birch wood. The rolls consist of white lacquered MDF and have black rubber tyres. The boards are available in black linoleum of white laminate.

Supplementary information

• Artek - 901 Trolley (PDF 281 KB)

Design: Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto ranks among the greatest names of modern architecture and modern design. Designer Alvar Aalto