Word: marimekkos
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...strapped for cash like the rest of us, but it's not because their salaries are low--it's because they're making payments on the condo, the late model Le Car and the slightly older Loyota, any number of credit card bills for woks and cursinarts and Marimekko sheets, membership fees at the Racquet and Tennis Club, and probably psychotherapy bills. Professional translates into making a good-salary and expected-to-make much more...
...smart newlyweds of a generation ago, their home, the first rung on the ladder of upward mobility, was almost inevitably furnished with "Danish modern," complete with Marimekko textiles, stainless-steel cutlery and plain white tableware. There was no better way to show modernity. Recently, however, modern Scandinavian design seems to have vanished from public awareness in the U.S. Much of it has been poorly adapted and absorbed by U.S. mass culture. In addition, it is no longer modern to be modern...
DIED. Armi Ratia, 67, Finnish designer and the dynamo behind Marimekko, the internationally known fabric and fashion house; after a long illness; in Helsinki. In 1949 Ratia quit her advertising job to write a novel and help salvage her husband's threadbare oilcloth company. The novel never was written, but the firm with Ratia as president took shape in 1951 as Marimekko (translation: a little dress for Mary). Ratia's bold-hued, clear-figured prints and the functional clothes she cut from them became Finland's hottest export since the sauna...
Though face lifting the Mirage with a few Marimekko prints and some hanging plants, the new owners purposely left, as the Sun-Times put it, "more code violations than barstools." But when the building inspector showed up, he spent eight minutes looking around, slipped a proffered $10 bill into his inspection papers and exclaimed, "Beautiful day!" Such self-over-public interest, the Sun-Times found, proved to be "the rule rather than the exception...
...came together in the drawing rooms of Paris and Rome couturiers. The soft-goods departments in stores from Tokyo to Beirut are beginning to look less like hospital wards than fashion salons, with towels by Pierre Cardin, sheets by Saint Laurent and table linen by Finland's Marimekko...