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The textile and ceramic designer Fujiwo Ishimoto joined Marimekko on a permanent basis in 1974. He had previously worked for four years in various capacities for the Décembre company, which was involved in the design and production of Marimekko’s canvas bags, among other products. In Tokyo, Ishimoto had seen fabrics designed by Maija Isola in the 1960s, and he was so impressed by them that he decided to travel to Finland to find out what Marimekko and Finnish design was all about. He is still on that journey.
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Who was Louise Adelborg, the woman who managed to create a porcelain service for every Swedish home? At the age of 31, having qualified as an art teacher at what is now the Swedish College of Arts, Crafts and Design, she came into contact with Rörstrand in 1916 and began designing décor. At the end of the 1920s, Louise Adelborg began tackling the design of dinner services. Her service, with its wheat-ear pattern pressed in relief into the surface, was presented at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. She managed to convey the feeling of golden ears of wheat swaying in the wind and the smell of fr[... mehr]
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