Report From Finland: Luxury and Museum Exhibitions in the Year “100 Years of Finland,” with a Focus on “Pitsi on Pop/Lace and Luxury”: Curators Marjatta Hietaniemi and Anne-Maj Salin (Salo Art Museum/Salon taidemuseo, West Finland)

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Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Dr. Laura Luostarinen, Marko Ikonen and the staff at the Salo Art Museum; Johanna Oksanen-Lyytikainen for driving “Corolla” and reading the text, as well as useful readings and comments by Tua Helve, Joanna Weckmann and Maarit Kalmakurki, all Aalto University. The study visit was undertaken within the Academy of Finland “FiDiPro” funded project “Costume Methodologies” at Aalto University, Department of Film, Television and Performance (ELO): my continuing thanks to Dr. Sofia Pantouvaki.

Notes

1. Used as the epigram by Tony Lurcock, “A Life of Extremes”: The British Discover Modern Finland, 1917–1941, London, CB Editions, 2015, frontispiece, p. iii.

2. Pitsi was curated by Anne-Maj Salin, curator of historical paintings who focused on the sociology of using lace in dress and Marjatta Hietaniemi, curator expert in lace history and contemporary artists.

3. Henrik Meinander, A History of Finland, trans from Swedish by Tom Geddes, London, Hurst & Co, 2011 [1988], 202.

4. Elizabeth Wilson, “Luxury” in Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption Vol. 1 issue 1, London, Bloomsbury, 2014. pp.15–21.

5. Printed exhibition notes.

6. Interview with the Museum Director, June 2017.

7. Communication with the author, notes on TopMan, June 2017.

8. Johanna Kiuru and the design curators, “Education and the People,” Modern Life! Finnish Modernism and the International Dimension, Helsinki: Parvs and HAM, 2017, 61.

9. Henrik Meinander, A History of Finland, trans from Swedish by Tom Geddes, London, Hurst & Co, 2011 [1988], 137.

10. Meinander, History of Finland, 140.

11. Johanna Kiuru and the design curators, “Efficiency and the Economy,” in Modern Life! Finnish Modernism and the International Dimension, Helsinki: Parvs and HAM, 2017, 39.

12. Tony Lurcock, “A Life of Extremes”: The British Discover Modern Finland, 1917–1941, London, CB Editions, 2015, 179.

13. Lurcock, The British Discover Modern Finland, 179.

14. Johanna Kiuru and the design curators, “Fame and Legacy,” in Modern Life! Finnish Modernism and the International Dimension, Helsinki: Parvs and HAM, 131.

15. Aino Niskanen. “Technology, the Sense and New Type of Projects in the Architecture of Alvar Aalto,” in Modern Life! Finnish Modernism and the International Dimension, Helsinki: Parvs and HAM, 2017, 178.

16. Harri Kalha, “Utopias of the Everyday,” in Modern Life! Finnish Modernism and the International Dimension, Helsinki: Parvs and HAM, 2017, 173.

17. Aino Niskanen, “Technology the Senses and New Types of Projects in the Architecture of Alvar Aalto,” Modern Life! Finnish Modernism and the International Dimension, Helsinki: Parvs and HAM, 187.

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Peter McNeil

Peter McNeil is Distinguished Professor of Design History at the University of Technology Sydney and Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro), Aalto University. Recent works include Fashion Journalism with Sanda Miller; Luxury: A Rich History with Giorgio Riello; and the edited work A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion – The Enlightenment. [email protected]