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Published in 6/2020 - Development

Interview

Christine Schildt: “Alvar and Göran Were Connected by Their Will to Experience the New”

Minnamaria Koskela

Christine Schildt on Skopelos, Greece 1963. Photo: Göran Schildt

The friendship of Alvar Aalto and Göran Schildt lasted for decades, up to the death of Aalto in 1976. Göran Schildt’s widow Christine Schildt reminisces about her life as the writer’s wife and as a friend of Alvar and Elissa Aalto.

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