Tiki Modern By Sven A. Kirsten (2007, Large Hardcover)




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Reference Number: Avaluer:3758680Format: Hardcover
Topic: AntiquesPublication Year: 2007
Subject: Books on CollectingLanguage: French
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, IllustratedISBN: 9783822847176
Original Description:
TASCHEN’s Book of Tiki provided the blueprint for the re-appreciation and revival of Tiki style. Almost completely wiped from the consciousness of Americans until recently, Sven Kirsten’s tome put Tiki on the map as a unique pop culture phenomenon. Never before had Tiki culture’s visual power and pervasiveness been revealed with such detail and insight. Not only did the book inspire the erecting of many new Tiki bars from New York to London to Berlin to Prague to Waikiki, but als...o motivated a myriad of Tiki artisans to pick up the chisel and carry on the forgotten tradition, while spurring many others to create their own home hideaways, making "Tiki" a household name again.
This new follow-up book, which brings together the two recent retro trends of mid-century modernism and Tiki style, is bound to lift the Tiki craze to a new level. With his usual mixture of ironic detachment and genuine enthusiasm for the subject, Kirsten shows us how primitivism and modernism were two sides of the same coin in the 1950s and 60s. Decor deities and ersatz ancestors outrageously merged in the modern brutalist furniture from the house of Witco, a company that outfitted Elvis Presley’s Jungle Room. 



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