Editorial

 Finnish female director Virpi Suutari’s brilliant examination, , showing here in May and June at the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival, lays bare some uneasy home truths about the man lauded as an icon of modernism. Revelations that give pause to rethink his beautiful, organic, curving architecture, his chairs, vases, and even his tea towels. Suutari’s coup was gaining access and permission to use love letters between Aalto and his first wife Aino, whom he married in 1924 and who died in 1949. They give unusual insight into the man behind the hero image, including