This is the second in a bimonthly series of photo-essays featuring objects from the Artek and the Aaltos exhibition and additional photographs, sketches, and other ephemera from the Aalto Family Collection.
Aino Marsio began working for Alvar Aalto in early 1924, and that October the two married in Helsinki. The Aaltos’ honeymoon, during which they traveled through Estonia and Austria on their way to Italy, was Alvar Aalto’s first trip to continental Europe. Aino Marsio-Aalto, on the other hand, had already travelled to Germany, Austria, and Italy with two female classmates from Helsinki’s Polytechnic Institute in 1921. The snapshots from the honeymoon below come from an album assembled by Marsio-Aalto, and they show her close attention to the local architecture.
Kirstin Purtich, Project Assistant Curator for Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World, is an alumna of the Bard Graduate Center master’s program.
