︎ Ideas of nature seen from the abstracted edge of perception.  ︎ Hypnotizing play of forms and colors, such that the distinction between fantasy and verity is rendered incidental.  





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BERGDORF GOODMAN

Window displays at the New York City institution at Fifth Avenue between 57th and 58th streets




Bergdorf Goodman is a luxury department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The company was founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and was later owned and managed by Edwin Goodman. Bergdorf Goodman showcased in their windows (754 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10019) a selection of tapestries by Kustaa Saksi.




Rather than being used as backgrounds for the fashion designs in the windows, the eight large-scale wool tapestries depicting Saksi's surrealist interpretations of the hypnopompic state of semi-consciousness, represent the main focus of the gallery-like windows. The tradition of orchestrating the perfect window shop goes a long way, having started in Paris in 1894 with wax dummies, but Bergdorf Goodman took it to another level in this case as Saksi' colourful pieces with their intricate motifs and abstract images of creatures and animals, such as spiders, monkeys and insects, form eye-catching graphic patterns and textures, vivid landscapes of psychedelic worlds. David Hoey, Visual Director at Bergdorf Goodman stated in an official press release about the event: "The tapestries featured in the Bergdorf Goodman windows are wonderful viewed at varying distances. Fascinating from across the street, and even more rewarding when viewed close up, where one can savor the exquisite weaving technique. We selected fall looks with exceptional textures to compliment the incredible craftsmanship of the tapestries."






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