| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 18.1 | Just some of them | AJAX::JJOHNSON | | Mon Dec 30 1985 23:04 | 13 |
| We talked about this and came up with our favorite items in two
categories: stuff we do not have and stuff that we do have.
In the first one Jim went for the Aalto end table - we have not
yet found anything he designed that we would not like. I went
for any Bang & Olufsen (sp?) hi-fi equipment. We were unanimous
in the second category: the "unikko" red wine glasses by iittala,
designed by the late Tapio Wirkkala. However, we must not forget
one of the most versatile pieces of Scandinavian design,
*the Lego block*!
Sirkku, mother of a boy who is heavily into Duplo, Lego's big
brother (and whose little brother just got his first Duplo rattle)
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| 18.2 | Design favourites | STKSWS::LITBY | This is, of course, impossible. | Sun Jul 27 1986 17:00 | 13 |
| Architecture: The Stockholm Town Hall.
If God lives in a building, this is what it must
look like.
Automotive: The Saab 9000 Turbo 16.
Monuments: The Sibelius Monument in Helsinki.
Incidentally, I think the very ugliest building of all is also
in Stockholm. The Royal Institute of Technology's School of
Architecture (yes, architecture) resides in a building whose
very ugliness no language can describe. It has to be seen to be
believed.
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| 18.3 | A Different Angle | MLOKAI::BEST | | Thu Sep 04 1986 16:42 | 17 |
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After reading this, I finally feel compelled to enter some of
my own feelings. I lived in Norway for two years, but I also had
a Swedish exchange student living with me for a year, and I spent
several months with him at various times in Sweden, and I spent
a few weeks in Finland. My favorite architecture was that of the
Stave Church in Norway, which is built with the same kind of construc-
tion as a Japanese pagoda! I also liked many of the modern churches
that I saw.
I have started my own collections of Swedish Crystal, and my
pride and joy is my Scandinavian Design bed. I know that that's
real commercial, but I love it anyway.
I'll comment on many other things later. I have found so far,
many things to be be highly subjective.
-Jerry
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| 18.4 | Marimekko wear | HSK01::MAENNISTOE | Dig it all | Fri Sep 05 1986 14:27 | 0 |
| 18.5 | marimekko wear | CYGNUS::OLSEN | | Mon Dec 15 1986 11:22 | 4 |
| marimekko can be bought and ordered from crate and barrels store
in cambridge.also for better prices than in finland which is great.
i saw a fashion show [put on by finlandia foundation] with MARIMEKKO
clothes that are available at crate and barrel
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| 18.6 | read the label | MAY20::MINOW | Martin Minow, MSD A/D, THUNDR::MINOW | Mon Dec 15 1986 13:50 | 7 |
| Watch out -- some of the locally-available Marimekko stuff is made
in the USA under license and doesn't seem to have the same quality
cloth (or dyes) as the more expensive Finnish stuff.
This is especially true of bed linens.
Martin.
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| 18.7 | | MAGIC::DICKSON | WYSIWYG is a crock | Mon Jan 12 1987 12:15 | 3 |
| I've seen the licenced USA-made Marimekko bed linens at both Crate and
Barrel and Bed & Bath stores. It says so right on the package, on the
grey cardboard strip around the top.
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