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...tentativeness with which Thompson approached the redecoration of the five-story space over the summer melted away as designers who worked for D/R during its heyday came forward with pieces ranging from peacock feather shaped wooden chairs to one-of-a-kind bolts of Marimekko fabric...
...just sat around and said, ‘what shall we do, what do we have available,’ then began moving all our furniture, our pieces, into the building,” Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside...
...Everybody just loved being in this place so much that they just wouldn’t go home,” Thompson says. “We started around June, worked every weekend throughout the summer up until the very last day of October...
...October, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of D/R’s introduction of Marimekko to the United States, Thompson held a reception in the award-winning building. The Marimekko president flew in from Finland to attend...
...Thompson says the exhibit design came together “out of memory” and “sort of like playing cards...