A few weeks ago, the MD of Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam – the insanely smart, kind and horribly handsome – Blake Harrop sent me a cryptic note saying he needed my home address.
OK, it wasn’t that cryptic because he basically said, ‘can I have your home address’ … but it was still a bit weird. And lovely.
To be honest, I’d forgotten about it until I came home late and found a package marked “sculpture” on the dining table.
Despite thinking it was quite likely to be a letter bomb, I opened it up and found this …
Yes, I know it’s fucking hideous, but it’s also beautiful because it’s a clog that has been carved to look like a Birkenstock that is also an iPhone stand.
That’s right, if I was a one-legged weirdo, I could use it to hop outside ANNNNNNND store my iPhone in it.
But that’s not the total mad thing – though I accept the fact this this actually exists, is pretty bonkers – it’s the fact it was a present from the very lovely nutters at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, specifically planning amazeballs Maria and the wonderfully brilliant ECD, Eric.
Why?
Because they are beautiful people and have utterly alarming taste. Or should I say know I have utterly alarming taste.
Anyway I absolutely adore it and it is another reminder how special Wieden is as a company, partly because of who they have in the company …, even if to most folks out there, this would be a declaration of war or the most insulting way to say you didn’t get the job.
Thank you my beautiful fools over in the dam, I love it.