Artek’s Aalto table 96, designed by Alvar Aalto, is a semi-circular table suited for both dining and working. Made in Finland, the table is crafted primarily from Finnish birch, with a tabletop finished in natural birch veneer. It can be placed against a wall as is, combined with another 96 table to form a round table, or used as an extension with Artek’s rectangular 81A and 82A tables.
Artek tables are based on different combinations of Alvar Aalto’s L-legs and tabletops. Aalto introduced the bent L-leg for the first time in 1933, and it became a standard component in his furniture designs. Judging his importance as a designer and architect, Aalto considered the development of the L-leg as his greatest achievement – he even called the L-leg "the little sister of the architectonic column". The development of the L-leg was revolutionary because it solved the problem of attaching legs directly to the tabletop in a completely new way – the leg could be fastened with screws directly to the tabletop, and the result was a simple but very solid structure.
