{"title":"Sven Kirsten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSven Kirsten\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the vibrant culture and design of mid-century tiki aesthetics, offering immersive histories that blend art, architecture, and popular culture. His works provide a richly illustrated journey through the unique visual language and social phenomena surrounding tiki movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a captivating fusion of cultural history and visual storytelling, revealing how tiki style reflects broader trends in American pop culture and natural landscapes. Kirsten's books are ideal for those fascinated by the intersection of design, nature, and historical context.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tiki-pop-by-sven-kirsten-9783836581547","title":"Tiki Pop","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn handy Bibliotheca Universalis format, \u003cem\u003eTiki Pop\u003c\/em\u003e traces the development of Tiki as romantic vision and cultural appropriation. Follow Tiki from James Cook's first Pacific Island expeditions, through \u003cstrong\u003eGauguin's exotic paintings, Hollywood jungle fantasies, and elaborate temples\u003c\/strong\u003e erected to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. With hundreds of images, Tiki the pop icon unfolds \u003cstrong\u003efrom its earliest, enthusiastic beginnings to its spectacular downfall\u003c\/strong\u003e in the dawning awareness of the Western world's colonial misdeeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the culmination of the extensive research of \u003cstrong\u003eSven Kirsten, urban archaeologist, Tiki sage\u003c\/strong\u003e, and author of earlier TASCHEN investigations, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Tiki\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTiki Modern\u003c\/em\u003e, which first recovered the figure of Tiki from obscurity. In his widely lauded graphic style, Kirsten places venerable ancient godheads next to their Polynesian pop counterparts, movie posters next to matchboxes, comic strips next to Robinson Crusoe illustrations. The result is at once a visual feast, \u003cstrong\u003ea piece of cultural history, and a tribute to a very particular vision of paradise.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464735801580,"sku":"9783836581547","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836581547-tiki-pop.jpg?v=1775052047"},{"product_id":"palm-springs-tiki-by-sven-kirsten-9781423666035","title":"Palm Springs Tiki","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalm Springs Tiki\u003c\/em\u003e presents a visual exploration of a midcentury tropical paradise in the California desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1930s through the 1970s, Palm Springs and other desert communities embraced the midcentury fantasy of a home-grown Polynesian paradise. The concept of the oasis and that of the tropical island shared the qualities of exotic escapism for the urban dweller, these would-be islanders under the desert sun. Sprouting from the arid desert were Polynesian restaurants, bars, nightclubs and lounges, hotels, motels, apartments, and trailer parks decorated with tikis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrities frequented Palm Springs’ Don the Beachcomber, the El Mirador’s South Pacific Room, the Bamboo Room at the Racquet Club, and Aloha Jhoe’s. Average Americans vacationed at the city’s Tropics Motor Lodge with its Reef Bar, the Kon Tiki Hotel, Kona Inn, Maui Inn, and Tiki Spa; and resided at the Aloha Palms and Kauai apartments and condominiums such as the Royal Hawaiian. In Rancho Mirage, the “Fly In \/ Drive In” Desert Air Hotel hosted luaus attracting over a thousand people, and at Bing Crosby’s Blue Skies Village was parked a trailer disguised as a Polynesian hut surrounded by tikis. Palm Desert, the Salton Sea, Desert Hot Springs, and far-flung desert outposts all had their own tropical hideaways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough myriad captivating objects, historic photographs, vintage postcards, colourful architectural renderings, and other ephemera, Sven Kirsten’s and Peter Moruzzi’s \u003cem\u003ePalm Springs Tiki\u003c\/em\u003e shows readers the many imaginative concepts that proprietors developed in creating a tropical paradise in the California desert. 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