AA1 sofa bed is designed by Alvar Aalto for MisuraEmme with tubular structure in chrome, armrests in solid wood black lacquered.
Backrest and seat are Adjustable, up to 180° to become a bed.
Removable cover in fabric or leather.
Numbered historical piece.
Alvar Aalto’s sofa bed is a mostly unknown part in the biography of the finnish master. In fact, before becoming internationally famous, towards the end of the 1920’ies Aalto adhered to the germanic influenced Functionalist Movement and in 1924 took part in the CIAM congress about the “Exhistenzminimum” at Francfort where he got in contact witch Gropius, Moholy-Nagy and Giedion. In the same year he participated in a competition organized by Thonet Mundus for the design of chairs and furniture with structure in bent steel tubing. It was also Siegfried Giedion who called on him for a collection he realized for Wohnbedarf and then put in production a chair as well as the adjustable sofabed which, in fact, reflects perfectly the principles of economy, simplicity of use and “lightness” in the figurative sense recommanded at Francfort. The sofa, slightly modified on Giedion’s advice, was presented at Stocarda in 1932 and on the occasion of the Universal Exposition at Bruxelles in 1935.