Sirkus (Circus) design of Vallila Interior’s autumn collection has a breath of cheerful circus glamour with new spices

- There is a breath of circus glamour of the past with a modern twist in the Sirkus fabric designed by Matleena Issakainen
- The young designer finds inspiration in slow fusion of circus elements into part of people’s everyday life
Elements from paillettes to tattoos and skateboarding which belonged before to the wonderful world of circus have slowly and varying become part of ordinary being. The colourful Sirkus design of the young Vallila Interior’s designer, Matleena Issakainen (born in 1981), finds its inspiration in this carnivalization of everyday life.

Issakainen combines in the design new and old to a new-fashioned colourful whole: ‘When I was designing this fabric I got the idea from faded, decorative old-time pictures with circus motifs, combined with daily hurly-burly and circus elements of today’s everyday life like feather ornaments and bold tattoos’, she says. In the Sirkus fabric a nostalgic trapeze artist meets a surfing dog in an old-time circus pavilion. There is a creeping tiger on the fabric edge – has the horse risen on its hind legs for fear? Issakainen says that she is very fond of the colourful design and hopes to be able to continue the same theme in the future.

Matleena Issakainen
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