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26/01/2006 8:17 pm  

In the 70's you had Ken Scott who did take flowerprints to the next level.
Nowadays it's Tord Boontje who initiated the 'flower-revival'.

Which one do you prefer?

And who else has made some extraordinary designs with flowers?

http://www.style.com/trends/focuson/092405/slideshow/092405FOC?pseq=1&play=false

http://www.tordboontje.com/

PZ,

Ray


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26/01/2006 9:27 pm  

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The best is Marja Isola (of course)


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26/01/2006 11:10 pm  

Maija Isola is certainly one ...
Maija Isola is certainly one of a kind and I love her work. But I think Alexander Girard's flowerprints are very nice too.


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26/01/2006 11:13 pm  

JOSEF FRANK
is a great one who is justly being rediscoverd...he did some great florals,botanics,his work is of a high quality...


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26/01/2006 11:17 pm  

I love GIRARDS work I recall...
I love GIRARDS work I recall his exhibit: Magic of a people at Hemisphere 1968.I saw it as a child, its the only one I recall...


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28/01/2006 3:46 pm  

Oh man, how can I forget...
Oh man, how can I forget Arne Jacobsen! - his flowerprint are certainly among the best. To bad no one has written a book about his fabric and wallpaper designs, they're fantastic and just as interesting as his furniture and houses.
At a huge retrospective show of Jacobsen's work some years ago at the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, they had displayed absolutely everything they could find of his fabrics and wall papers and I've never know he'd done so much and of such a high quality. It must have been quite a difficult task since his fabric are VERY hard to come by.
Anyway, I was absolutely blown away. Would someone please write a book about this man's fabrics and wallpapers?


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28/01/2006 4:05 pm  

Part of the reason....
why this part of Arne Jacobsen's work has been neglected is that most of it was done during is "exile" in south Sweden. He was jewish, so during part of the war years he left occupied Denmark for "neutral" Sweden and had a hard time finding work as an architect. I agree with your call for more documentation on that part of his work.


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28/01/2006 6:02 pm  

Yep, you're right, Koen. I'm...
Yep, you're right, Koen. I'm so tired of hearing about his chairs when there's much more to this man than just Ants, Eggs and Swans. His fabrics and wallpapers are really a forgotten chapter and they don't deserve to be.
His exile is actually a great story. Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen along with both their new wifes escaped in a small rowboat. The story goes that it was actually the wifes who row the four hours from Skodsborg Beach to Landskrona in Sweden while listening to Jacobsen and Henningsen discussing design, singing songs and having a laugh.
When you see Jacobsen's mindblowing paitings and with his love of plants in mind, it's easy to see where he got his inspiration from.


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