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Kōrero: Furniture

Modernist display

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Modernist display

This appears to be a display of modernist Scandinavian furniture in an unknown New Zealand furniture shop or gallery, probably in the early 1950s. Many of the pieces on display were designs of the famous Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Gordon H. Burt Collection (PA-Group-00743)

Reference: 1/2-036392-F

by Gordon Burt

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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William Cottrell, Furniture – Changing styles, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/37498/modernist-display (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā William Cottrell, i tāngia i te 9 March 2012.