Question: Which Nordic countries are home to the design movement to which also the art of the artist Alvar Aalto belongs to?
Context: Muuratsalo is an island in lake Päijänne, Finland.  Northern part of the island belongs to Jyväskylä and Southern part to Muurame.  It is located 14 km south from the Jyväskylä city centre and 5 km east from Muurame.  There are 800 inhabitants in Muuratsalo.  The Muuratsalo Experimental House by Alvar Aalto is located on the island.  Elissa and Alvar Aalto discovered the place for this jewel of architecture while Säynätsalo Town Hall was under construction on the neighbouring island. The architecture of Finland has a history spanning over 800 years, and while up until the modern era the architecture was strongly influenced by currents from Finland's two respective neighbouring ruling nations, Sweden and Russia, from the early 19th century onwards influences came directly from further afield; first when itinerant foreign architects took up positions in the country and then when the Finnish architect profession became established.  Also, Finnish architecture in turn has contributed significantly to several styles internationally, such as Jugendstil (or Art Nouveau), Nordic Classicism and Functionalism.  In particular, the works of the country's most noted early modernist architect Eliel Saarinen have had significant worldwide influence.  But even more renowned than Saarinen has been modernist architect Alvar Aalto, who is regarded as one of the major figures in the world history of modern architecture.  In an article from 1922 titled “Motifs from past ages”, Aalto discussed national and international influences in Finland, and as he saw it; The Alvar Aalto Medal was established in 1967 by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) and the Finnish Architectural Society.  The Medal has been awarded intermittently since 1967 when the medal was created in honour of Alvar Aalto.  The award is given in recognition of a significant contribution to creative architecture.  The award was given earlier at the Alvar Aalto Symposium, held every three years in Jyväskylä, Aalto’s home town.  Recently the ceremony has been organized on Aalto's birthday, February 3rd, today the Finnish national Day of Architecture. Aalto Center (Finnish: "Aaltokeskus" ) is the administrative and cultural center of the City of Seinäjoki, Finland.  It comprises six buildings, designed by Alvar Aalto and mainly completed between 1960 and 1968.  The center represents one of Aalto's most important works and is notable in Finland and even internationally as an architectural whole.  The wooden plan of the center is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Villa Aalto, the home of Academician Alvar Aalto is located in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, at 20, Riihitie.  The house is part of the Alvar Aalto Museum, which functions in two cities, Jyväskylä and Helsinki.  The other location in Helsinki where the museum functions is Studio Aalto, which is located ca. 450 metres from the house, at Tiilimäki 20. Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the 1950s in the five Nordic countries of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark.  While the term Scandinavia only refers to the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, it is often used colloquially to refer to all five of these countries. The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a piece of glassware created by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino that has become an internationally known iconic piece of Finnish design.  It became known as the Savoy Vase because it was one of a range of custom furnishings and fixtures created by Alvar and Aino Aalto for the luxury that opened in 1937. The Studio Aalto is a house in the Tiilimäki neighbourhood of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, which Alvar Aalto designed during 1955–56 to be the studio of his architect bureau.  Due to a large number of commissions, the office needed more space in which to work.  The studio is said to be one of his best buildings from the 1950s.  Near the studio there is also Villa Aalto, the home (and previous office) of the Aaltos.  Both the studio and the Villa are now part of the Alvar Aalto Museum, and they are open to the public.  The Alvar Aalto Academy and Alvar Aalto Museum Architectural Heritage Department are housed in Studio Aalto. Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (] ; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.  His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings, though he never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture."  Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family.  The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.  What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a "total work of art"; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware.  His furniture designs are considered Scandinavian Modern, in the sense of a concern for materials, especially wood, and simplification but also technical experimentation, which led to him receiving patents for various manufacturing processes, such as bent wood.  The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä. Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) was a Finnish architect, and one of the key figures of modernist architecture during the twentieth century.  In addition to architecture, his oeuvre includes furniture, textiles and glassware.  A full annotated encyclopedia of his entire works was compiled by his biographer Göran Schildt, "Alvar Aalto, A Life's work: Architecture, Design and Art" (1994).
Answer: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark