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Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. The building was constructed in 1938–1939.
The Gullichsens were a wealthy couple and members of the Ahlström family. They told Aalto that he should regard it as 'an experimental house'. Aalto seems to have treated the house as an opportunity to bring together all the themes that had been preoccupying him in his work to that point but had not been able to include them in actual buildings.
Today, Villa Mairea is considered one of the most important buildings Aalto designed in his career.[1]
- ^ "Elevating the Everyday" (PDF). The Social Insurance Institution of Finland. 2007. p. 41. ISBN 978-951-669-756-0. Retrieved 19 November 2014.