Alvar Hugo Henrik Aalto is an architect, draughtsman, town planner and Finnish designer born on February 3, 1898 in Kuortane, Finland.

Follower of functionalism and organic architecture, wood and the brick - constitute his materials of predilection; and being interested in decorative arts, he created models of unusual objects and pieces of furniture out of wooden rolled and curved.

He developed several models seats emblematic of the new Scandinavian design. Just like his furniture and architecture, his creations made of glass are characterized by the organic forms. The Savoy vase of 1936 became traditional. Its sinuous form could also be an allusion to its name, which means "vague" in Finnish.
 
Inspired by the relation between the man and nature, the step globalist and humanistic of Aalto is the philosophical compost on which the Scandinavian design developed and opened out.