Artek Alvar Aalto Round 40' Birch Dining TableAlvar Aalto believed good design should live as easily as it works. His L Leg Table proves the point solid birch legs curve gracefully into the tabletop, their seamless joinery born of a radical bending process he pioneered with furniture manufacturer Otto Korhonen in the late 1920s. Patented in 1933, the technique uses precise cuts and inserted veneer strips to create what Aalto called "the little sister of the architectural column." What looks