Post #624676 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 6:59 PM

K.K.Kele and Chuck, thank you both for your posts!

Chucky first:

Mucho Mahalos for your valiant attempts in Tiki terminology, but I do have to correct you (as requested):
I don't recall calling the Tiki Revival "Tiki Style", I call it... Tiki Revival Style. And I call mostly mid-century Tiki "Tiki Style" - why would I have let my publisher use that as the title of the ICONS version of the BOT, otherwise:

These books proved that "Tiki" was a style in its own right (pulling together architecture, graphic design, decor) making it i.e. Tiki Style.
For abbreviation, I refer to examples of both genres (classic and neo) as being "Tiki", or "Un-Tiki", (or in the case of the pre-50s era, "Pre-Tiki")
I know this might seem confusing to some, and I can see some folks already roll their eyes thinking "Who cares" - fine, they don't have to, but others do.

So I want to thank K.K.Kele for coming back here (from the Van Tiki thread) and putting so much thought and effort into his post, effectively proving to me that he does not belong to the simpler minded "I-just-wanna-have-a-good-time-rs", as I was wrongly assuming. And apologies for further assuming that he, as a lurker reading TC posts, was aware of my background (maybe I should change my moniker to avoid further confusion for newbies).

As for the rest of the matter: I am just too tired to again and again state my case - all can be found in my various posts in this thread. To me, there are certain things that don't belong to Tiki Style. Organic forms, for example. Extraneous surface decorations. Generic patterns. Dungeons and Dragons. Too much comic strip, not enough Oceanic art....but whatever.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-02-11 20:19 ]