Comments on: Warhol's Brillo Boxes made out of foam and sold as furniture

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:23:00 +0000

Should’ve been made of wood or cardboard, so you could at least use them for storage. That probably wouldn’t be ironic enough, though.

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:46:00 +0000

Yes.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:36:00 +0000

“. . . made of foam, with a little compartment filled with enough gold to make it actually worth $425.”

By: Art

Art — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:54:00 +0000

“Warhol” Brillo Boxes made out of foam.

A truly unique combination of irony, crass commercialism and pathetically obvious crass commercialism.

And that’s just SO Warhol. If he was alive, he would probably show up at HomeGoods and sign them.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:07:00 +0000

He’s just compensating for not having a GIANT SIZE PKG.

By: blueelm

blueelm — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:44:00 +0000

I saw these on fab.com and was sort of amazed. I mean really amazed. But then again this is the place that sells desks like the one currently in my dad’s garage for 1500, complete with added paint splatter (because getting your own paint splattered on something you paid that much for is out of the question).

Fun tip: You can find them at the Sav-on down the road from me for 20-30 bucks fresh out of other dads’ garages. No free shipping though.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:30:00 +0000

I wore an idiot’s grin while reading this, Phasma. Please write more comments like this on Boing Boing. They are fantastic.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:26:00 +0000

Wow — thanks!

By: EeyoreX

EeyoreX — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:17:00 +0000

here you go: http://www.dn.se/blogg/wp-content/migratedmedia/pastan/blog/02/20/58/100/20101018/Brillo.pdf

By: EeyoreX

EeyoreX — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:58:00 +0000

There’s so many levels of empty pretentiousness embodied in your comment that I don’t know where to begin. From the presumption that Warhol was unaware of the scathing irony inherit in the art markets commodification of already commodified objects, down to the (deliberate?) misinterpetation of Marks appraisal for Harveys design work. I’d go on, but why bother. I’d have to explain why the whole joke is on you, and that kinda ruins it.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:54:00 +0000

Just wait a year or two, you’ll be able to pick ‘em up at Homesense for $50.

I picked up some keycap (Ctrl, Alt, Del) side tables for $45…

By: PhasmaFelis

PhasmaFelis — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:12:00 +0000

There’s so many levels of empty pretentiousness embodied in these things that I don’t know where to begin. From the notion that ordinary items are transubstantiated into Art essentially because a famous artist touched them one time, to the uncomfortable realization that art is thereby reduced to nothing but fawning, content-free celebrity worship, and then backwards as the effect retroactively transforms the history of its subject until Mark Frauenfelder can straight-facedly call an utterly banal and undistinguished product logo a “masterpiece” because it would later be touched by a celebrity, and finally a general reflection on how the stark necessities of living poor (e.g. cardboard box furniture) inevitably get commodified and gentrified by rich idiots trying to look street…

After all that, it hardly even seems noteworthy that someone would be cynical and greedy enough to charge $425 for a foam replica of a cardboard box, and that someone else would be faux-ironic and celebrity-obsessed enough to buy it.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:59:00 +0000

I trying to find hi-res photos of all six sides so I can make my own out of wood. Can anyone help?

By: Uncle Geo

Uncle Geo — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:54:00 +0000

Who did these guys actually copy -Warhol or Brillo?

By: Rob Bray

Rob Bray — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:18:00 +0000

With apologies to Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American hipster

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:03:00 +0000

That the pads in the design travesty resemble pink flocked Weetabix probably has a lot to do with the box resembling breakfast cereal. Yum!

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:33:00 +0000

I’ve got a little shindig turning out much the same, but with much edgier “Imiquimod” logos. I take $1,274.99 for each. Drop me a line.

By: bo1n6bo1n6

bo1n6bo1n6 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:22:00 +0000

I used cardboard boxes as furniture when I was broke as hell, now some hipster is gonna shell out $1275 to make their Williamsburg apartment look like the rent might not get paid. Irony….(But, its a Warhol… sorry kids that’s not even a box of brillo pads.)