"I was in Helsinki when the founder Riittaa Immonen died & in the window of the Marimekko store they had replaced the bright fabrics with a simple black screen."
My mum is the one who introduced me to the prints of Marimekko & as I followed in her footsteps with a slight obsession with fabrics & prints every time we spot the famous red Marimekko poppy (including oddly, the other weekend, as a curtain to the changing room in a charity shop in Bath) we share the same "Ooooo Marimekko" noises. Because there's something just so... right about their prints. In the way Liberty's are wrong, but work. Does that make sense? I guess it's cause they're Scandie, hence being able to offhandedly publish a free newspaper with a whole page dedicated to well laid out repeated white kitchenware. Newspaper picked up on my brief Cheltenham escapade from this shop.
Lovely.
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Ahhhh man I can't wait to get an apartment and buy all white crockery and display it exactly. like. that.
ReplyDeleteOoh and regarding your tat comment: I think I saw one of Hooper's images on a random tattoo site, and then basically just tried googling anything about the designs I could think of (long way of doing things). Came across tattooed model El Wood - I think I probably couldn't want to be her more. Howwwwever I only want one or two tattoos, and ones easy to choose to hide/display. Ribs have always been my number one spot, I'm just gonna have to put up with the pain! Mind you, I want mainly linework, so hopefully without shading it won't be too long a pain...