Aino + alvar aalto. a life together

This book is not only about two architects, but about a marriage of minds. Aino and Alvar Aalto, bound together by love and design, built more than chairs and houses; they built a way of seeing the world.

Through letters and photographs, fragments of their private dialogue emerge: tender, ordinary, and at times austere. Their grandson, the keeper of these traces, arranges them not as a historian but as one who listens for the music between words.

It is the first work to treat their lives as a single composition, to show Aino not as a shadow beside Alvar but as his counterpart, indispensable and equal. In these pages, we glimpse how creativity and intimacy can be inseparable, and how architecture is also the story of two people daring to imagine a shared form of life.

• Size: 30,5 × 23,8  cm 
• 352 pages, 400 illustrations
• Author(s): Heikki Aalto-Alanen