Vilnius Street Inspiration

April 23, 2010

We’ve been working with a lot of new patterns recently in the studio, so I kept my eyes peeled for inspiration while we were in Lithuania a few weeks ago. This particular shop window in the Vilnius old town displayed some patterns that remind me of old French tapestries and others that look like they originated in the 80s – and yet they seemed to complement each other nicely.

The trees wanted in on the composition as well, as you can see, so this picture reminds me a bit of some early debates about esthetics – as if the trees are insisting, “All of man’s art originates in nature.”