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Aino Aalto

1894 - 1949

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Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (born Aino Maria Mandelin; 25 January 1894 – 13 January 1949) was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl of the design company Artek, collaborating on many its most well-known designs. As Artek's first artistic director, her creative output spanned textiles, lamps, glassware, and buildings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aino Aalto has received more than 151,661 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Aino Aalto is the 106th most popular architect (up from 113th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Finland (up from 39th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Aino Aalto ranks 106 out of 518Before her are Étienne-Louis Boullée, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, César Pelli, Filarete, Hannes Meyer, and Luis Barragán. After her are Auguste Perret, Ricardo Bofill, Lúcio Costa, Albert Speer, Hans Hollein, and Philip Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Aino Aalto ranks 45Before her are Alexander Dovzhenko, Josef von Sternberg, Sergey Ilyushin, Paul Blobel, Elisabeth of Romania, and Norman Rockwell. After her are Dimitri Tiomkin, Lothar von Richthofen, V. V. Giri, Walter Brennan, André Kertész, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger. Among people deceased in 1949, Aino Aalto ranks 29Before her are Gustav Radbruch, Henri Giraud, Kim Koo, Marcel Cerdan, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and Solomon R. Guggenheim. After her are Aleksandra Ekster, László Rajk, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry McMahon, José Clemente Orozco, and Ellery Harding Clark.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Aino Aalto ranks 38 out of 751Before her are Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917), Mauno Koivisto (1923), Mika Häkkinen (1968), Albert Edelfelt (1854), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), and Hjalmar Siilasvuo (1892). After her are Tom of Finland (1920), Ari Vatanen (1952), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Hannes Kolehmainen (1889), Matti Nykänen (1963), and Eliel Saarinen (1873).

Among ARCHITECTS In Finland

Among architects born in Finland, Aino Aalto ranks 2Before her are Alvar Aalto (1898). After her are Eliel Saarinen (1873), Eero Saarinen (1910), Eero Aarnio (1932), Elissa Aalto (1922), Lars Sonck (1870), Wivi Lönn (1872), Johan Sigfrid Sirén (1889), and Marco Casagrande (1971).