Tiki Style
ティキ・スタイル / 1934–1960s / revival / Aesthetic / Pop
The Polynesia imagined by American bars and restaurants: carvings, bamboo, torches and mai-tai vessels styling postwar escapism — a fantasy South Seas to be read together with its history of borrowing from Pacific cultures.
Tiki-carving motifs / Bamboo and rattan interiors / Torches and flame / Tropical drink vessels
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Never confuse it with real Polynesian or Micronesian cultures. This is an American fantasy; keep respect for and distinction from the sources.
- Further study
- Don the Beachcomber, 1934 / Sven Kirsten's The Book of Tiki / the critique of Pacific appropriation