Design Research / Marimekko
Harvard Square in 1972.
The Design Research Building on Brattle Street (now Crate & Barrel) with a Marimekko sign in its window. DR used to be a little store-in-an-old-house on Brattle Street, about where Harvard's Gutman Library is now. I loved the quality and ingenuity of the wooden toys they imported from Sweden. When their new and larger building opened across the street and a block or so away in 1970, what I noticed most was the colorful Marimekko fabrics from Finland.
From the Boston Globe:
It was Cambridge architect Benjamin Thompson who first brought Marimekko products to the United States in 1959, selling them in his legendary home furnishings store, Design Research, on Brattle Street. (It now houses Crate & Barrel.)
Design Research / Marimekko
Harvard Square in 1972.
The Design Research Building on Brattle Street (now Crate & Barrel) with a Marimekko sign in its window. DR used to be a little store-in-an-old-house on Brattle Street, about where Harvard's Gutman Library is now. I loved the quality and ingenuity of the wooden toys they imported from Sweden. When their new and larger building opened across the street and a block or so away in 1970, what I noticed most was the colorful Marimekko fabrics from Finland.
From the Boston Globe:
It was Cambridge architect Benjamin Thompson who first brought Marimekko products to the United States in 1959, selling them in his legendary home furnishings store, Design Research, on Brattle Street. (It now houses Crate & Barrel.)