Willem van Hooff, 2025
I DIDN’T DO ENOUGH II
Collector work
DKK 36,000
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This piece was inspired by the universal experience of self-doubt. Willem reflects on the critical inner voice that often questions whether something is “good enough,” a voice he, too, hears while creating and sharing his work. With this vase, he wanted to give form to those insecurities—yet also to transform them. By choosing the shape of a trophy, an object usually associated with joy and celebration, he reimagines it as a symbol of acceptance: a celebration of the moment he began to embrace, rather than resist, that persistent inner voice.
Lead time: 6 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 555 x 510 x 270 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
The work
Made to order. Delivery time 4 weeks.
Materials & making
Mouth-blown glass
Glass is made in minutes and cooled for hours. Molten at over a thousand degrees, it is gathered, blown and shaped while it moves, a material that records the breath and timing of the person making it. No two pieces cool exactly alike.
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 555 x 510 x 270 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
01
Gathering
Molten glass is gathered from the furnace onto a blowing iron at working temperature.
02
Blowing and shaping
The glassblower inflates and turns the gather, shaping it by hand and tool while it is still soft.
03
Forming
The piece is worked toward its final form; colour, wall and profile are set before the glass stiffens.
04
Annealing
Finished glass is cooled slowly over hours in a controlled oven so it settles free of internal stress.
Made at
Holmegaard
Denmark · Est. 1825
Holmegaard has made glass in Denmark since 1825 and remains one of Scandinavia's most storied glassworks. Each piece is mouth-blown and shaped by hand, continuing a craft tradition central to Danish design.
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The artist
Willem van Hooff
1992, Netherlands · Design, Ceramics, Sculpture, Furniture
Willem van Hooff is a Dutch designer and artist who graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018 and subsequently established his own studio in the city. He describes himself as a modern craftsman, favouring primitive techniques, traditional machinery and raw or recycled materials — earthenware, salvaged wood and found objects — to create tactile, hand-made furniture and vessels.
His practice is driven by a belief that much modern production lacks soul, drawing on historical traditions, diverse cultures and the contrast between craft and contemporary society.
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- Artist
- Willem van Hooff
- Title
- I DIDN’T DO ENOUGH II
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 555 x 510 x 270 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Provenance
- First sale, Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 6 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed certificate of authenticity included
- Returns
- Made to order. Sales are final once production begins; contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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