About this artwork
Hella Jongerius’s Jonsberg Vase for IKEA is a perfect example of the fusion of nostalgia and the avant-garde through the use of embroidery in contemporary design. The vase itself has a clean-lined, classic shape that would be fitting in a minimalist modern setting without any embellishment. Jongerius, however, is known for reinterpreting normative conventions of craft to produce new hybrids that are imbued with warmth, nostalgia, and fun. Here her figurative floral pattern is pierced into the vase in a manner reminiscent of needlepoint. The merging of these two apparently incongruent traditions renders the vase—because of the ornamental perforations—anything but functional.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Hella Jongerius (Designer)
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Title
- Jonsberg Vase
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 2005
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Medium
- Stoneware, feldspar porcelain
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Dimensions
- 34 × 30 cm (13 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of an Anonymous Donor
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Reference Number
- 2008.694
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