{"title":"The story of Aalto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Alvar Aalto presented his glass designs for the Karhula-iittala.mompetition in 1936, they stood apart from anything that had come before. At a time when symmetry and classical form still defined much of European glass design, Aalto’s proposals were fluid, irregular and deliberately open-ended. The forms seemed to resist classification — neither purely decorative nor strictly functional.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/iittala.mom\/en-gb\/collections\/the-story-of-aalto.oembed","provider":"Iittala","version":"1.0","type":"link"}