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Aloha Spirit – Hawaii’s Influence on the
California Lifestyle
April 16 - July 27, 1997 |
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The exhibition “
Aloha Spirit – Hawaii’s Influence on
the California Lifestyle” was produced and
designed by the staff at the California Heritage
Museum, and was open from April 16 to July 27, 1997.
The exhibition presented a look at the Golden Age
of Hawaii and the objects manufactured for its tourist
industry. It covered a period from the turn of the
century to the post-war years, ending around 1960
when jet travel changed the Islands and their way
of life forever.
If there is such a thing as the Aloha Spirit, it
is the penchant that Islanders have for inviting
the outdoors in and the indoors out. More than a
specifically tropical ambience, it is this smooth,
harmonious interplay between interior and exterior
that is the signature of the Hawaiian style. Foliage,
flowers, breezes, colors, light – in the island
home they flow in and out unobtrusively, cheerfully
blurring the boundaries between the two worlds.
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The Aloha Spirit living room is decorated in rattan and rich fabrics. Tropical airbrush prints by Gill adorn the walls, bamboo shades and floral curtains are on the windows, and pottery in the tropical mode is everywhere. |
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