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11. The Villa Mairea

Source: Jana Jocif

11. The Villa Mairea (Image 11 of 12)

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto is probably my favourite architect and this is the most beautiful home. The Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house and rural retreat designed in 1937 for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. They told Aalto that he should regard it as 'an experimental house' which he most certainly did. Aalto was an absolute master and his buildings were beautifully planned and sensitively detailed using warm elegant materials.

Photograph provided by Jana Jocif.

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