Post #664143 by Hale Tiki on Tue, Jan 15, 2013 12:32 PM

On 2013-01-15 10:03, bigbrotiki wrote:
On top of that, even for Conquistador style (I personally don't think it's Maori), it simply is not a very inspired piece, design-wise.

I feel a responsibility because I wrote the books that started the run on Witco, and now people think uniformly "If it is Witco, it must be good!". Well it's not that easy. Witco did a lot of crap that I never would have put in my book. In fact, "crap" is what Witco was viewed as as a whole before I pointed out that its Tiki and modernist lines had some real creative genius and humor in them.

I am merely encouraging folks to differentiate and use their eyes and minds to make educated judgements.

Agreed. It's no different that differentiating between good modern tiki, and bad modern tiki. Just because it's tiki, doesn't mean it's good. Ahem hewhoshallnotbenamed Not everyone is a winner, and although Witco produced some rather lovely pieces, they also produced some that looked like they were carved while on a week long mescaline bender, which, considering the time period, might very well have been possible.