Alvar Aalto's Savoy Vase (1936) “Between Humanism and Materialism”

- What does this vase mean to me? As we approach the end of the twentieth century, it is seems that it is easy to forget and not realize that modern architecture was born in the aftermath of the First World War. A related, but different, impulse was apparent in the Nordic countries in the early 1920’s, where architects started to use supposedly timeless values, such as minimal ornament, clarity of form and elegant proportions. On the Continent there was an urge towards exploration and innovation, to exploit new building materials and match the industrial achievements of the day, for example cars and airplanes. In Northern Europe, Scandinavia, it was to reconnect with the mainstream of Western culture - as a favourite saying of the time had it, to 'bring grapes to the rowan peoples', and the style, naturally, was Classical. Since the of the Aalto unveiling at the Paris World's Fair in 1937, the......

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