House of the Day: Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto

Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto
Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto
Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto

Completed in 1939 by Alvar Aalto, this guest house sits in the Finnish countryside surrounded by towering birch trees.

Designed as a rural retreat for Harry and Maire Gullichsen, this property marks a transitional point in Aalto’s style, as it shifted from more traditional to modernist ideals.

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