Artek + Moomin 60 Stool Celebration celebrates not only Artek's 90th anniversary, but also the 80th anniversary of the Moomins. The honey-stained stool is laser-engraved with Tove Jansson's sweet illustrations, which can be found on both the seat and all the legs of the stool. All the meticulously engraved illustrations come from Jansson's earliest notebooks and Moomin stories. The illustrations also include texts that have the same atmosphere as the writings scratched under old desks.
The products in the Artek + Moomin collection were selected with hospitality in mind. The Celebration stool welcomes unexpected guests in a very Finnish way - informally and improvisedly. The stool ensures that there is always one extra place in the home for a relative or friend who unexpectedly drops by. The Celebration stool is honey-stained to give the overall look a touch of the patina of vintage stools. The stool is available for a limited time only.
The Artek 60 stool is a diamond of Finnish furniture design, designed by Alvar Aalto. The beautiful L-shaped stool design will never get old. In addition to being a seat, the three-legged stool can also be used as a side table, for example next to a bed or armchair. It also serves as a spare seat and several stools stack beautifully to form a rotating tower.
In the late 1920s, architect and designer Alvar Aalto began experimenting with wood bending. Together with furniture maker Otto Korhonen, Aalto developed a groundbreaking process that resulted in the L-leg. The iconic leg is created by cutting slits into a piece of wood below the bend, into which wooden slats are glued. Aalto called the L-leg the little sister of the architectural column. Long-standing traditions in furniture production were interrupted when Aalto patented the technique in 1933. The warm, organic wood material was now used to make durable and robust furniture.