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A self confessed lover of the bold, often brash graphic designs of the 60s
and 70s, and the almost stark, pared down work of the Scandinavians, Orla
has combined these elements with a soupçon of the highly decorative,
humorous canon of the great Lucienne Day. The result is a body of work that
is both visually challenging and uniquely her own and yet at the same time
as cosy and comfortable as carpet slippers as it evokes some of our own
private memories of just a few decades past.
Certainly those of us in our thirties and forties may well remember some of
Orla’s regular palette of burnt oranges, avocado greens and earthy browns
that in the late 1960s and 1970s coloured everything from the familial soft
furnishings to bathroom suites. Renters and student digs dwellers from the
1980s, meanwhile, might recall something of the geometric graphics and
painfully hued swirls of left over carpets and wallpaper in homes owned by
landlords too cheap to opt for the chic red and greys of the Habitat
explosion.
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