
I Traveled to Finland to See Alvar Aalto's Masterful Buildings—and It Changed How I Think About Midcentury Design
When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined building must have looked like an emissary from the future, set down in a forest of fragrant pine. Finland, which had emerged just 16 years earlier from …