Finnish design in "Starsky & Hutch"

[mortmere]

When you're a geek from Finland, part of the fun always is finding some Finnish influence, like design items, in foreign movies and television series. A couple of well-known examples include the tulip chairs in "Star Trek", whose original designer was born in Finland, and Princess Leia's Lapponia jewellery in "Star Wars". Seeing such things makes us Finns ridiculously proud. :D

With "Starsky & Hutch", finding anything of Finnish origin seemed so unlikely that I haven't really been looking, but then one very, very minor detail caught my eye in "Death Notice".

In the background in one girl's flat, there is a picture frame with a white and blue design in it. I don't think there is a Finn alive (at least one who's even remotely interested in design) who wouldn't instantly recognize that as Maija Isola's classic Marimekko print design "Kaivo" (1964). 

A very, very minor "yay" for this. (For a big "yay", it'd take something like "Kaivo" curtains or duvet covers in Starsky's flat. Hmm, actually, I think Starsky would really like some Marimekko designs...)

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Re: Finnish design

[mortmere]

I've noticed your surname is a Scandinavian one - a smidgen of Finnish there, another of Swedish or Norwegian here? Who knows if you have common ancestors with David Soul himself... ;)

(This design was actually inspired by the designer's childhood experience of looking into the bottom of a well (that's the name of the design, too, "kaivo" means a well). But it does look like crescent moons, too.)