Paimio chair

[ pahy-mee-oh ]

noun

1. a chair developed by Alvar Aalto between 1930 and 1933, having two continuous, ribbonlike elements made of bent laminated birch veneers forming the arms and legs and supporting a sheet of bent plywood that forms the back and seat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Paimio chair¹

After Paimio, Finland, site of a sanitorium which Aalto was designing when the chair was developed