Willem van Hooff, 2025

I Didn’t Do Enough II - Glass Sculpture by Willem van Hooff

Name: I Didn’t Do Enough II - Glass Sculpture by Willem van Hooff
Brand: Willem van Hooff
Price: 36000.0 DKK
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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.

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Artist: Willem van Hooff
Year: 2025
Material: Glass
Dimensions: 555 x 510 x 270 mm.
Edition: 14 + 3 Artist's Proofs (AP)

I Didn’t Do Enough II - Glass Sculpture by Willem van Hooff

The work

Made to order. Delivery time 4 weeks.

I Didn’t Do Enough II - Glass Sculpture by Willem van Hooff detail

Materials and 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 + 3 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.

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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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Details

Artist: Willem van Hooff
Title: I Didn’t Do Enough II - Glass Sculpture by Willem van Hooff
Year: 2025
Material: Glass
Dimensions: 555 x 510 x 270 mm.
Edition size: 14 + 3 Artist's Proofs (AP)
Publisher: Edition Solenne, Copenhagen
Primary market release: 2025
Acquisition: Acquired directly from Edition Solenne
Lead time: 6 weeks
Certificate: Signed and numbered by the artist and publisher
Returns: Consumers in the EU may withdraw within 14 days of delivery, except where the work is produced to individual specification, as stated on the invoice. Contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.