Miffy + Michael Barnaart brooche

Description

From now on, the world’s most famous rabbit will also have an iconic design by Michael Barnaart in her wardrobe. As an enamelled brooch, Miffy wears the Mondrian dress.

‘I think those stripes are nice too / I think they’re really good / but I don’t know exactly / how or if I should look’, Miffy once said. She is a lover of Piet Mondrian’s work. As is Michael Barnaart, who in turn is a fan of Dick Bruna’s most famous creation. With a brooch of Miffy in his famous Mondrian dress, the fashion designer brings about a logical but unique encounter between two of the most influential artists in the modern Dutch design tradition.

‘Dick Bruna’s work is among my earliest childhood memories; Miffy hung above my bed as a poster,’ Barnaart says. “The apparent simplicity, strong lines and vibrant colours are important inspirations for my designs. These same elements later struck me in Mondrian’s work.” When his Mondrian dress took the world by storm at international exhibitions in 2011, the designer wrote to Bruna to thank him for his inspiration. ‘His handwritten response hangs in my tower room,’ he gloats. “Since then, a collaboration with Miffy was high on my wish list. Now that the Mondrian dress is exactly ten years old, the right time has come.”

The enamelled brooch with magnetic clasp is now available in the boutique and in the Museum shops of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Villa Mondriaan in Winterswijk and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. This collector’s item is accompanied by a nice gift box.

Size: 50 mm x 26 mm
Material: metal with enamelled colours
Closure: magnet

Do not use in combination with a pacemaker. Not suitable for children. The brooch contains small parts that may be a choking hazard.

Illustrations Dick Bruna © copyright Mercis bv, 1953-2021