Consuming Greek Antiquity: Μαΐου 2014

Πέμπτη 1 Μαΐου 2014

IDISTI - Greece with a twist

This blog entry and wonderful discovery is written by my dear friend Mania Kostopoulou.

Enjoy!

IDISTI - GREECE WITH A TWIST is a new Greek company which designs and produces everyday objects and gifts of unique design with a fresh look,inspired from Greek history, culture, nature, architecture, traditional costumes, myths and symbols of Greece from ancient to present times.

IDISTI recently won the 3rd award in the Innovative Service Model category on the Tourism Awards 2014.

Its collections are all beautiful.
It's obvious that I want them all.
But as the blog's theme is Consuming Greek Antiquity, I owe to present you the collection "Monuments of Athens".

If only I had the body to fit in such a Warholic swim suit with the Caryatids. Even though some will find it kitsch, I love it.

Pay a visit on their site www.idisti.gr

Indulge your curiosity.
https://www.facebook.com/idisti.gr?ref=ts&fref=ts

What's this?

Consuming Greek Antiquity is an on-going project of mine aiming to explore the various ways through which Greek antiquity has been consumed by the 20th c. popular media, especially photography and graphic illustration.

I'm mainly interested in the most original and ingenious examples of incorporating and often interpreting elements of the ancient greek culture. Whole sites, monuments, artefacts, historical and mythological figures appear in the least expected places and these unexpected occurences and strange encounters are the main focus of this blog.

Having just written this, I need to stress that this is a more-fun-than-work project, rather than the other way round, so no strict criteria are applied, i.e. not only 20th c. and not only popular media, but I'll try to stick to only Greek antiquity.

Effort has been made to include attribution to the original sources of the works presented here, but apologies are offered in advance where I have failed.