House of the Day: Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto
March 24th, 2017
March 24th, 2017
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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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