Aino Marsio Aalto and the modern furniture: "Let´s think about it"

Abstract

This research on Aino Marsio Aalto starts from the objects that make up the interior of the domestic space. It focuses on two projects that have been elaborated by her, the plan of the children's room for the Turku apartment of 1929 and the plans of the kitchen for the minimal apartment of the Helsinki exhibition of 1930. They contain the essence of her thought to understand its contri-bution to the furnishing of spaces; including operating diagrams and relationships with their use. Aino Marsio does not project architecture from the materials with which the space is built, but with the necessary furniture that structures the environments by its use, in a scientific way. His vision of the decorative arts proposes a set of minimal standard objects associated with the movement, weight, growth and scale of the user's body that allow interaction and different con-figurations of spaces. Turning interiors into a flexible game of domestic spaces of modern life.