This chair, the "Paimio" or scroll chair, features a laminated bentwood frame and lacquered body. Designed in 1932, this chair, less rigidly functionalistic than Bauhaus, followed Thonet's bentwood techniques and extended the International style. Aalto was the first to use the cantilever principle in chair design with wood instead of steel. Aalto was the designer of the fan-legged petal tables in the Traill Senior Common Room. In 1968, several other Aalto designed chairs and tables were purchased for the Science Complex including 129 solid birch side chairs with linen webbing forming the backs and sides.

Sixteen "Paimio" were purchased for the new chemistry building in 1969. About 6 chairs were located in the administrative area of the Chemistry Building on the occasion of the University's 25th anniversary in 1989.