Maire Gullichsen also worked with Aalto and others several years before Villa Mairea to found Artek, which manufactures his furniture and decorative wares to this day.
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Like Wright, Aalto was building a summer home for wealthy clients timber-fortune heirs Harry and Maire Gullichsen, who commissioned a house in Noormarkku, near the west coast of Finland.