iTokyo Metropolitan Teien Art MuseumShirokanedai, Minato
Marimekko: Art of Printmaking — Beauty, Dream, Love
Over 60 dresses, printed textiles and production materials from the Finnish design house Marimekko, with a video on its Helsinki print factory and work by designer Akira Minagawa.
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More than 60 dresses hang in a house built in 1933 for a Japanese prince, and the pairing is the point. The Teien's French Art Deco rooms, with their Japanese decorative touches, now hold the loose, brightly printed Finnish dresses of Marimekko, shown across the main building and the annex.
The dresses sit alongside printed textiles and production materials, with Maija Isola's 1964 designs Unikko, Seireeni and Kaivo among the named prints. A video installation by the collective plaplax presents the Marimekko print factory in Helsinki, and guest designer Akira Minagawa contributes a new installation. Unikko is the poppy print from 1964, so the tote bag on your friend's shoulder is older than most of the people carrying one.
Entry is by timed ticket, and you can buy online in advance. Adults pay 1,400 yen. The museum closes on Mondays and stays open until 8pm on selected dates in November and December. Photography is only permitted for selected works.
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More than 60 Marimekko dresses, printed textiles and production materials, with film from the Helsinki print factory and work by Akira Minagawa. In the Teien's Art Deco rooms, the prints get grander walls than a tote bag.
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The dresses
More than 60 pieces are on show, set inside the Art Deco rooms of the former Prince Asaka residence.
Maija Isola's 1964 prints
Unikko, Seireeni and Kaivo, all designed by Isola in 1964, are among the named prints.
The plaplax video
The art collective plaplax documents the Marimekko print factory in Helsinki in a video installation.
Akira Minagawa's installation
The guest designer shows new work, made in an exchange with Marimekko.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Out-Of-Town Guests
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You want to photograph the dresses: photography is allowed only for selected works.
With kids
Middle-school students and younger enter free. Selected Baby Hours allow strollers inside.
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- Marimekko: Art of Printmaking — Beauty, Dream, LoveCourtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
- Assembling Anew: Emerging Japanese Artists vol.23Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art MuseumKakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Tokyo Photographic Art MuseumYuya Tamai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0