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...seat hall swaying to the carefree, catchy melody. With grand sweeps of the arm, Levine drew out the long lines of the lyrical theme, sustained by the cello and viola sections. The five-minute work received applause, which was soon replaced with quiet anticipation of Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska’s debut with the Boston Symphony. Attired in a dark-colored floor-length dress that was scintillating under the bright stage lights, Kovalevska strode gracefully to the left of the podium and nodded slightly to Levine before he struck the downbeat of the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky?...
...forged the brand's simple styles and its legacy of distinctive silhouettes, including that of Kennedy's shift. As for the company's eye-popping Tasaraita stripes, these were developed in the '60s by Annika Rimala. The patterns have been designed mainly by freelance artists, the most famous being Maija Isola, who by the time she died in 2001 had created more than 500 prints for Marimekko. She was able to mastermind an astonishing range, from the intricate and folkloric Ananas (1962)?which remains one of the most popular prints for the home market?to the radically simple, dramatically...
...company fueled by female power (and with a staff of more than 90% women), the poppy print was born when the forceful Armi Ratia told Maija Isola that Marimekko wanted nothing to do with the pretty florals that have been a leitmotif of industrially produced furnishing fabrics ever since the advent of William Morris and Liberty of London. The headstrong Isola responded with a flower print that owes nothing to an English country garden. Though today Unikko adorns everything from shower curtains to cookie tins, when it was introduced, the print seemed to channel the rising wave of '60s discontent...
Anyone can submit a design to Marimekko, though the lion's share of those chosen for production come from Finns, who best understand what has become, in effect, a national brand. Maija Louekari, 25, who grew up in a far-north home full of Marimekko and had her first design produced when she was only 21, imagines her creations as "little children being sent out into the world." As for why her color combinations are so bold, she responds in a lilting accent, "It's so cold and dark, you need something delightful...
...only be hinted at in a museum exhibition, so the spotlights are on individual achievements: the sensuousness of Milles' bronze model for Europa and the Bull (depicting Europa as a perplexed Lolita, although she is grown up in the full-scale sculpture); the bold, glazed vases of Maija Grotell; the assertive, colorful fabric designs of Strengell. Most prominent in the show is the best-known achievement of Cranbrook: the furniture and interior design by the Saarinens, the Eameses, Bertoia, Florence Schust Knoll and others. One exhibit replicates a typical mid-century office. Designed by Florence Knoll, it combines...