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Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture (Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture)

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Creator: Marianne Aav
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$65.00~~
Buy New: $38.00
You Save: $27.00 (42%)

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

1 reviews
Sales Rank: 347417

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 10.2 x 1.2

ISBN: 030010183X
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.767702094897
EAN: 9780300101836

Publication Date: December 1, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
Founded in 1951 by visionary textile designer Armi Ratia and her husband, Viljo, the Marimekko Corporation in Finland not only sparked a revolution in pattern making but also pioneered a new definition of fashion that embraced the entire home environment. This book-the first comprehensive study of Marimekko designs-presents more than one hundred examples of the exuberant Marimekko fashions and home furnishings that gave the company a definitive presence on the world design stage. The book considers the history of the company from its founding through today and examines Marimekko's impact on design in Finland and around the world. The company's most important designers, including Maija Isola and Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi, their contributions, and their stylistic development are also discussed. In addition, the book examines Marimekko home and office interiors and how they reflected the lifestyle envisioned in Armi Ratia's broad, radical definition of fashion.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

a thorough tribute to a design giant March 11, 2004
16 out of 17 found this review helpful

I just saw the last weekend of this show in New York at the Bard Center and it was inspired, to say the least. The book is the next best thing to being there if you are a Marimekko fan. It is a more thorough look at the company than the older title "marimekko phenomenon". The editor of this book, Marianne Aav (also the show's curator) was responsible for the 1998 show/book from the Bard Center on Finnish Modern Design. Marimekko's brave colors, shapes, and graphics are made more powerful, in my mind, by the fact that the final result appears so simple. While I mourn the lack of this in much of today's clothing/textile design, I think that the renewed excitement about Marimekko, and design in general, indicates that this is changing. There is a lot of exciting material coming out of Scandanavia and Finland by young designers right now, but Marimekko's influence on modern design cannot be underestimated. Their vision ranged beyond textiles into architecture as well, which the book illustrates. This exhibit & accompanying book have done a fine job at giving credit where it's due.

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