Sunday, January 24, 2010

Marimekko Dishware

I know that nostalgia is half the reason I love Finnish company Marimekko's designs so much. They remind me of growing up in Cambridge Massachusetts in the '70s and '80s, when all the Cambridge ladies wore cotton Marimekko dresses and the huge Crate & Barrel store in Harvard Square (it had more of a warehouse feel back then and wasn't so upscale) was loaded with Marimekko.
I buy a lot of vintage Marimekko on ebay, and luckily the company still sells a lot of the old patterns. Recently they released porcelain dinnerware, and although the patterns look vintage they are actually new (although clearly inspired by Marimekko's design history):





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