€39.00
Porselein Beer vaas #101 Post it geel
€39.00
During a beach clean-up near Bari, Italy, Foekje stumbled upon this little bear, who looks a lot like Robijntje. Once his little body was filled with liquid washing detergent or fabric softener and his place was on top of a washing machine. But now he washed up ashore and never told us how he ended up there, we expect it was a long journey.
The outside of the stained porcelain is biscuit which gives a mat finish similar to plastic. The inside of the porcelain bottle vase #101 is glazed to make it waterproof and suitable as a vase or container. The porcelain bottle vase #101 measures 15,9×6,6×4,5 cm.
This little bear comes in a edition of 200 pieces and they are hand numbered at the bottom. For this edition Elzeline Kooy designed a box with a lively deep sea scene that gives this laundry softening bear the dark and dirty edge he needs, silk screen printed with two colours on a stapeled carboard box with insert.
Bottle vases are inspired by a collection of plastic trash from the river Maas in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After reading about plastic soup, Foekje Fleur started looking more carefully at the river running through her home town and found plastic waste that had been accumulating there since the 1960s. By creating durable porcelain copies of the material she finds, Foekje Fleur is spreading awareness of this growing problem.
