Maija Isola tribute

Got some books on the history and pattern gallery of Marimekko (you know, the giant flower fabric thing your artsy roommate used to own a palette of), and was struck dumb in particular by the patterns of one artist name of Maija Isola. No, not struck dumb. Beauty sobbing. These patterns - so powerful, so forceful, but never clinical - grandiose but human scaled - joyful yet witty - and always fluid, fluid like water, simple as a child can draw, smart as an adult can imagine. She basically invented the stereotypical company style, but only she can do such wonders...

Dress pattern and overlays are the evergreen pattern Melooni (Melon) in two of the many, many color variants... Background is a wonderful chartreuse Kaivo (Water Well) that I condensed to keep the patterns contrasty enough from each other... I have another version without the Mod targets overlaying it!

Mentioned it to my hairdresser, he remembers the old salon he worked at in the seventies in Grand Haven that had a Marimekko boutique... "I wish I had kept some of that stuff. It was so great." Then they made it a store of Memphis furniture. Again, he hated it for the last thirty years and now wishes he'd bought some.