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Got some books on the history and pattern gallery of Marimekko (you know, the giant flower fabric thing your artsy roommate used to own a palette of), and was struck dumb in particular by the patterns of one artist name of Maija Isola. No, not struck dumb. Beauty sobbing. These patterns - so powerful, so forceful, but never clinical - grandiose but human scaled - joyful yet witty - and always fluid, fluid like water, simple as a child can draw, smart as an adult can imagine. She basically invented the stereotypical company style, but only she can do such wonders...
Dress pattern and overlays are the evergreen pattern Melooni (Melon) in two of the many, many color variants... Background is a wonderful chartreuse Kaivo (Water Well) that I condensed to keep the patterns contrasty enough from each other... I have another version without the Mod targets overlaying it!
Mentioned it to my hairdresser, he remembers the old salon he worked at in the seventies in Grand Haven that had a Marimekko boutique... "I wish I had kept some of that stuff. It was so great." Then they made it a store of Memphis furniture. Again, he hated it for the last thirty years and now wishes he'd bought some.
Like I told my mom this afternoon when she suggested redoing her kitchen, calling her russet-ochre-marble-stainless steel-cedar New Simplicity nightmare "Retro," she hit the roof. "It's eleven years old!" "Honey, when you study art, every fashion that you have to give a reason for using is retro." Best definition I ever came up with. Retro is when you need an excuse to use it.
(That is how you say "Homage to Maija," innit? My Finnish is pathetic. I tried it once but couldn't handle six cases of Latin and four cases of German, much less fifteen. It's a wonderful language on the tongue, like a cuisine that's so balls hard to cook no one makes it.)
Dress pattern and overlays are the evergreen pattern Melooni (Melon) in two of the many, many color variants... Background is a wonderful chartreuse Kaivo (Water Well) that I condensed to keep the patterns contrasty enough from each other... I have another version without the Mod targets overlaying it!
Mentioned it to my hairdresser, he remembers the old salon he worked at in the seventies in Grand Haven that had a Marimekko boutique... "I wish I had kept some of that stuff. It was so great." Then they made it a store of Memphis furniture. Again, he hated it for the last thirty years and now wishes he'd bought some.
Like I told my mom this afternoon when she suggested redoing her kitchen, calling her russet-ochre-marble-stainless steel-cedar New Simplicity nightmare "Retro," she hit the roof. "It's eleven years old!" "Honey, when you study art, every fashion that you have to give a reason for using is retro." Best definition I ever came up with. Retro is when you need an excuse to use it.
(That is how you say "Homage to Maija," innit? My Finnish is pathetic. I tried it once but couldn't handle six cases of Latin and four cases of German, much less fifteen. It's a wonderful language on the tongue, like a cuisine that's so balls hard to cook no one makes it.)
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I immediately pictured the whole thing. (I have an unhealthy fascination with decade-wide color schemes, and looking at different decades reinterpreting things is so fun. The '70s Great Gatsby drowned things in white, and the new one drowned it in black and gold... which looks more art deco, anyways. "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" is the thirties seen from the early 2000s, so drowning in ochre and black and white styling, with olive and navy outlines. So watching "Austin Powers," the most colorful administration ever reinterpreted by the SECOND most colorful administration ever, is an optical feast.)
If something's beautiful, who needs any other reason for using it? Every time period has plenty of things that are just as gorgeous now that everyone's no longer immersed in the styles they started or followed.
Marimekko designs are particularly good examples of the kinds of 1960s color palettes I just want to eat with a spoon.
I feel kind of the same way about Finnish - I only know maybe a dozen words, but singing along with Finnish music is a delight. One of the many languages I've learned to at least pronounce, if not understand.
Marimekko designs are particularly good examples of the kinds of 1960s color palettes I just want to eat with a spoon.
I feel kind of the same way about Finnish - I only know maybe a dozen words, but singing along with Finnish music is a delight. One of the many languages I've learned to at least pronounce, if not understand.
Still gorgeous. I should throw a sixties party.
(Sixties fun fact - Givenchy designed the giant necklace Audrey Hepburn wears in the opening scene of "Breakfast At Tiffany's" at her request, she was self-conscious about her exposed collarbones. Anorexia isn't fun.)
Oh, diva preach! The sixties was a magical time when we had both experienced color talent AND an inclination to experiment. Without them, you get the eighties and the fifties, respectively. They were starting to play with warm/cool mixes, bizarre neutrals, earths, strange saturations, and to play rich tones against each other and let it shimmer.
The umlauts trip me up. But yeah - too much agglutination for me to wrap my head around. Plus, there's always depressingfinland.tumblr.com to laugh at. How can a nation so depressing come up with Moomins, and Marimekko, and Sibelius? Their sense of design is godlike. And yet, when you have to be precise, you say you have to be "tarkkana kuin porkkana," precise like a carrot. I love that phrase. "Ääliö älä lyö, ööliä läikkyy." "Don't hit me, stupid, you're spilling the beer." That's too many umlauts for my brain to digest.
(Sixties fun fact - Givenchy designed the giant necklace Audrey Hepburn wears in the opening scene of "Breakfast At Tiffany's" at her request, she was self-conscious about her exposed collarbones. Anorexia isn't fun.)
Oh, diva preach! The sixties was a magical time when we had both experienced color talent AND an inclination to experiment. Without them, you get the eighties and the fifties, respectively. They were starting to play with warm/cool mixes, bizarre neutrals, earths, strange saturations, and to play rich tones against each other and let it shimmer.
The umlauts trip me up. But yeah - too much agglutination for me to wrap my head around. Plus, there's always depressingfinland.tumblr.com to laugh at. How can a nation so depressing come up with Moomins, and Marimekko, and Sibelius? Their sense of design is godlike. And yet, when you have to be precise, you say you have to be "tarkkana kuin porkkana," precise like a carrot. I love that phrase. "Ääliö älä lyö, ööliä läikkyy." "Don't hit me, stupid, you're spilling the beer." That's too many umlauts for my brain to digest.
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