No object was too mundane to be beautiful.
Probably my favorite comment about Art Nouveau.
Whoa. The Wikipedia entry mentions that it was called “Kalevala style” in Finland. Which — looking elsewhere — might be a little off. I mostly see references to National Romanticism, which is a bit of a mixed bag historically speaking. For Finland it was an urge to assert itself as a nation and not just some dirt swapped back and forth between Russia and Sweden. Writing down the Kalevala was a part of that same movement.
And yeah JRR Tolkien loved the Kalevala, tying in another piece to hippy culture. I think every bookshelf I saw as a kid had a copy of The Lord of the Rings.
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