Your Favorite Designers at Home: The Heralded Alvar Aalto's Unassuming Helsinki Abode

Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect and designer of the ubiquitous 3-legged stool (that spawned a perhaps even more ubiquitous IKEA knockoff), was also the creator of a lovely, very modern and yet very cozy, home on the outskirts of Helsinki. Often, the homes designers create for themselves tend toward the grandiose, but this one could be appropriately classified as humble, even subtle. In its melding of private and public spaces, indoors and out, it reflects the very best of what modern architec...