A provocation on the theme of materiality, "Aalto dreams of Neon" deprives Alvar Aalto's design masterpiece, the Paimio armchair, of one of its most recognizable features - its materials. Noble wood is replaced by 'meaningless' neon. Is the chair still the same?
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