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	Finnish Design Blog » Marimekko
		Marimekko’s upholstery fabric collection includes many of the bold, large print patterns they are known for, but also many other patterns that are simple and elegant.
		The Marimekko Ilta Slippers are made of 100% cotton and are available in 3 sizes.
		Known for their durability, Marimekko towels are also super absorbent and extra comfortable.
	blog.finnishgifts.com /category/marimekko (474 words)

	Marimekko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marimekko is a Finnish company that has made important contributions to fashion, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Marimekko was founded in 1951 by Armi and Viljo Ratia, when Armi asked some artist friends to apply their graphic designs to textiles.
		Marimekko was first introduced to the United States by the architect Benjamin C. Thompson, who featured them heavily in his Design Research stores.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marimekko (170 words)

	Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture
		The name Marimekko derives from the vernacular Finnish form of the girl's name "Mary" and mekko, which means "dress." The combination of the modern and the traditional proved invaluable to the company's success in Finland and internationally.
		Marimekko's clothing, in particular, with its clean, unisex lines and free, loose-fitting style, conveyed a utopian feel of sexual equality and evoked the character of the 1960s.
		It is the first comprehensive study of Marimekko, and the illustrations consist of new photographs, commissioned by the Bard Graduate Center, of fabric and fashion in the extensive Marimekko collection of the Finnish Museum of Art and Design, and period photographs.
	www.bgc.bard.edu /exhibit/exhibits/marimekko/press_release.html (1549 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Women: Marimekko was set up by women, for women
		Marimekko was set up by women, for women, and put on the map by Jackie Kennedy.
		It is fitting that Marimekko should have come to public attention via a fashion statement from one of the last century's most iconic women.
		Paakkanen, 76, is regarded as the "saviour" of Marimekko, a heroine akin to Burberry's Rose Marie Bravo.
	www.guardian.co.uk /gender/story/0,11812,1562854,00.html (1475 words)

	Excite - Fashion & Beauty
		If you don’t know Marimekko this exhibit will be an eye opener, showing how in post-war Helsinki the Rattias saw their scarred country as a blank canvas where they could paint a new picture, one filled with forward-thinking optimism and a new way of living.
		Marimekko debuted in Helsinki in 1951, and came to America in 1958 courtesy of Cambridge, where Benjamin Thompson’s now-defunct temple for followers of the modern lifestyle, Design Research, introduced them to the women of Harvard.
		But Marimekko wasn’t just cute dresses and cocktails in Connecticut; the Rattias were developing, introducing, and branding a new way of living in the post-war years; a world with freedom, optimism, happiness, and practicality at its core.
	fashion.excite.com /feature/id/ff\|5901.html (652 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		The company flourished for the next two decades, but when Ratia died in 1979, Marimekko lost its way under the leadership of her son Ristomatti and his siblings.
		She then dismantled the bureaucracy within Marimekko, boosted the role of the designers, and built up the home interiors side of the business.
		Marimekko's success has much to do with the fact it is a woman's company: we're practical, we don't waste, we can do many things at the same time, we're less nervous about our positions, we express our feelings better."
	www.hinduonnet.com /holnus/009200509081031.htm (735 words)

	Scandinavian Review: Marimekko: Resurgence of a Finnish Phenomenon
		The rapid acceptance of Marimekko throughout Scandinavia, and in the international marketplace, was attributable at least in part to consumer demand for new styles to suit the optimism of die postwar years.
		In addition to Armi's leadership, Marimekko's success was secured by the talents of a group of creative designers, each of whom contributed a distinctive, yet compatible, look to the mix.
		In the American market, the informality of Marimekko designs for the home tended to relegate them to children's rooms and country houses, and they were considered too casual-and perhaps too modern for "major" rooms in most affluent homes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200404/ai_n9407060 (1297 words)

	Finnfacts - English - Innovations and Industry - Textile Industry and Design
		A look at Marimekko’s financial results is enough to convince you that the company is in the rudest of health: ‘Marimekko’s sales increased dramatically.
		Although to the outsider Marimekko is strongly personified in the shape of Paakkanen, she herself talks in the ‘we’ spirit.
		Marimekko’s founder, Armi Ratia, said that Marimekko’s deepest being is not the products but the force of the creativity from which ideas are generated which, in turn, are expressed in the form of products.
	www.finnfacts.com /english/innovations/textile/marimekko.htm (1516 words)

	OpinionJournal - LEISURE & ARTS
		It's hard to believe that Marimekko's unmistakably vivid prints, inspired by advertising, modern art and the warp and woof of the global village, were once considered radical.
		Some of the early Marimekko clothing designs are dated, and will remind baby-boomers of the short, triangular shifts that women wore to "swinging" cocktail parties in the 1960s, or to brunch--when brunch was something "young people" did.
		But Marimekko was anointed as glamorous when Jacqueline Kennedy purchased a closetful--and appeared with tousled hair, wearing a pink Marimekko shift, on a magazine cover in 1960.
	www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=110004513 (750 words)

	Marimekko fashion makes bold new again \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		As Marimekko quietly expands its presence in the US (a second new store will celebrate its grand opening in Miami next Thursday), women who came of age in the '60s and '70s are becoming reacquainted with the label, and delighting in the chance to introduce it to a younger generation.
		For women of a certain age, Marimekko's iconic red Unikko flower is as evocative as a madeleine.
		The store here is airy, with crisp white walls and shelves that serve as a foil to the boundless color of the merchandise: Unikko rain boots in red and fl, a rainbow of striped children's tights, a double bed covered in the trademark red and pink poppies.
	www.csmonitor.com /2007/0112/p11s02-algn.html (924 words)

	Hildi Hawkins: Marimekko and me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Elsewhere, Marimekko was becoming a kind of uniform for women with a new sense of independence.
		The astonishing thing, to a child’s eye accustomed to much more sober dressing on the part of her mother (who at that period was busily taking on local colour in England with twinsets and pearls) and women even older, was that they often looked best on women in their forties and fifties.
		I would have loved to have worn a proper Marimekko, but it just wasn’t going to happen: first, they were, for someone dependent on pocketmoney and parental indulgence, breathtakingly expensive, even if you bought the material and made the clothes yourself; and second, the zeitgeist, no less, was against it.
	dbgw.finlit.fi /fili/bff/104/hawkins.html (1283 words)

	Marimekko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Marimekko är ett av Finlands mest populära och erkända designföretag inom mode och heminredning.
		Med sina produkter ger Marimekko glädje, färg, harmoni och komfort till miljontals människor över hela världen.
		Marimekkos breda produktsortiment omfattar kläder, inredningstextilier, presentartiklar, väskor och accessoarer.
	www.marimekko.se (139 words)

	Wilsonart Laminate - The Statement: Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture
		Marimekko is, without doubt, one of the great success stories in the history of 20th-century design.
		It was his wife, Armi (1912-79), who built Marimekko into a purveyor and advocate of a highly distinct and fashionable lifestyle concept.
		Marimekko's clothing, with its clean, unisex lines and free, loose-fitting style, conveyed a utopian feel of sexual equality that evoked the character of the 1960s.
	www.wilsonart.com /design/statement/viewarticle.asp?articleid=103 (577 words)

	Marimekko mystique making a comeback
		Marimekko seemed to be everywhere -- not only on the backs of women, men and children but in homes brightened by window coverings, wall hangings, pillow covers, bedding and table linens crafted from the fabrics.
		Customers may choose a Marimekko fabric as available in the 16 all- inclusive kits now being offered or opt for another fabric within the inventory and arrange for a more customized kit.
		Newcomers to the Marimekko mystique will be joining the ranks of enthusiasts including Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, who once extolled Marimekko as "the best of Scandinavian design."
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/27/HO62104.DTL&type=printable (764 words)

	Marimekko
		In addition to the products in our UK online store, Marimekko's entire current collections are also available to order.
		Click on the link below to visit the global Marimekko website to view the entire collection.
		The images and materials may be downloaded solely for personal use.
	www.marimekko.co.uk (123 words)

	The Washington Diplomat
		The Finnish textile and clothing company leans to the daring side of design, which is reflected in its 2004 catalogue of spring and summer wear containing full-page displays of form-fitting and flowing dresses in bold reds, yellows, greens and pinks.
		The success of Marimekko, which means “Mary’s Dress” in English, is from a combination of talent, audacity and a dose of luck, as one presenter described the company’s rise to acclaim during a recent press opening for the “Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture” exhibit at the Embassy of Finland.
		Today’s Marimekko is the brainchild of the husband-and-wife design team of Armi and Viljo Ratia, who followed their urge to invent a unique brand of clothing in post-war Finland.
	www.washdiplomat.com /04-04/b5_04_04.html (516 words)

	Throw Your Clothes on the Floor \| Metropolis Magazine \| November 2001
		Kranz is now working on a spring collection for Marimekko that uses the same technology.
		Although 28-year-old Gunhild Kranz's new collection for Finnish company Marimekko also incorporates folds as part of the design, she was most concerned that the garments be interesting objects.
		Marimekko (which has a patent pending on the technology) introduced Taitos at the CDP Fashion Fair, in Düsseldorf, in August.
	metropolismag.com /html/content_1101/inp (608 words)

	Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Marimekko became internationally known in the 60s when the world's trendsetter number one, Jacqueline Kennedy wore Marimekko.
		Marimekko's future is featured by works by seven students from the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH and a group of students from six international schools of art and design.
		This was the soil from which came Marimekko's power of generating of ideas, products and personalitites whose stories have lived on and laid the foundations for the development of a strong Marimekko brand.
	www.visitfinland.com /web/Publish.nsf/406f264558342e1bc225693c003b4338/9a804bb1a83b2788c2256a5300306c84 (285 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| LIFE & TIMES > Flowery Finnish fashion house seduces hip dressers and stock ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Long gone are the days when the company’s name prompted a surprised “Mary Who?” from the fashion crowd, especially after Jackie Kennedy wore one of its dresses on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine in the early 1960s, and Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill, decked herself out in one 40 years later.
		And since the 1990s and their retro wave in fashion, Marimekko has been able to capitalize on its early designs as well as introduce a few new ones, making it one of Finland’s most profitable firms—and its Helsinki stores a compulsory stop-off for tourists.
		Investor demand has made Marimekko a must-have item on the stock market, too, and its share price has tripled on the Helsinki exchange over the past 18 months, from around three euros in August 2002 to 10 euros last Friday.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/feb/12/yehey/life/20040212lif2.html (2337 words)

	Marimekko's classy comeback — Virtual Finland
		Also showcased were the cream of Marimekko designers, a feature that emphasized the key role played by women in creating the company's unprecedented lifestyle concept.
		The Marimekko story began in 1951 when the company was founded by the late Armi Ratia, assisted by her husband.
		Today, Marimekko is a publicly owned company with 26 retail stores of its own and nearly a thousand foreign retailers.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=31734 (619 words)

	Personal Landscapes \| Metropolis Magazine
		Open the spring 2005 Marimekko catalog, and you will see line-drawn urban and rural scenes pop amid sweetly rounded florals, childlike drawings of exotic animals, and conventional abstractions.
		Those standout textile patterns are the work of 23-year-old Finnish designer Maija Louekari, who was still an interior- and furniture-design student at the University of Art and Design Helsinki when she won a Marimekko-sponsored competition in 2002 for her distinctive cityscapes.
		"Marimekko is rich because they have many styles and points of view in their designs," she says.
	www.metropolismag.com /cda/story.php?artid=1318 (523 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Aav's selection of essays written by journalists, design historians, architects and professors, along with her selection of full-color photos of various patterns and designs, make this a comprehensive, enlightening study of an important design firm.
		Marimekko's brave colors, shapes, and graphics are made more powerful, in my mind, by the fact that the final result appears so simple.
		While I mourn the lack of this in much of today's clothing/textile design, I think that the renewed excitement about Marimekko, and design in general, indicates that this is changing.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/030010183X (549 words)

	FDIM features fun Finn fashion - Lifestyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The work of the international design company is spontaneous rather than planned, and the exhibition is a tribute to this quality that has remained true to Marimekko for over half a century.
		Marimekko's modern and groundbreaking apparel, furniture and bags are crafted with their own textile prints.
		Marimekko: Fashion/Fabrics/Architecture is on display until Oct. 30 at the FIDM Museum and Galleries, 919 S. Grand Ave.
	www.dailytrojan.com /news/2004/09/23/Lifestyle/Fdim-Features.Fun.Finn.Fashion-727985.shtml (493 words)

	Marimekko's bold colors bloom again
		Marimekko was first imported to America in 1959 by architect Benjamin Thompson, founder of the pioneering emporium Design Research in Cambridge, Mass.
		Working closely with Marimekko designers on frequent trips to Finland, Ben Thompson helped develop prints with an "architectural intent," such as large stripes, which he'd hang like a banner as a room partition, his wife recalled.
		"Marimekko lives in the spirit of the current time and follows trends of the market," she said via e-mail.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/03/27/HO14730.DTL (1146 words)

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