hoptimist | christmas reindeer bumble | small oak - seasonal
hoptimist | christmas reindeer bumble | small oak - seasonal
Dimensions: 5.9 x 9.5 cm high
Material: oak
Christmas is the festive feast of smiles, and the Christmas Hoptimists are sure to spread smiles during this joyous holiday time. They make ideal fun-filled Christmas decorations, but they also make wonderful hostess gifts or Advent calendar gifts. Because joy itself is a gift!
With a strong belief in the power of smiles, Gustav Ehrenreich founded his happy Hoptimist movement in the late 1960s. The aim was to create a figurine that would serve as a constant reminder to stay positive and optimistic. For although the 1960s are often referred to as the “Swinging Sixties”, the decade was marked by unrest. This made Ehrenreich’s design a welcome spreader of joy in an otherwise turbulent time.
Bimble and Bumble represent the very first Hoptimists designed by Ehrenreich: A girl with smiling eyes wearing a dress and an alert, inquisitive boy with a tuft on his head. Today, the happy Hoptimists are part of Danish design history and they spark joy all over the world.
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In the late 1960s, Gustav Ehrenreich created the happy movement that has since found a place in Danish design history. Today there is a happy Hoptimist for every occasion. That's why you can always find a Hoptimist who wants to please wherever it ends up. That is the whole idea behind the Hoptimists: To spread joy and put smiles on everyone's lips.
Today, when we further develop the design, we do so in the spirit of Ehrenreich. His basic idea was to draw the Hoptimists based on a circle and an ellipse, and that idea underlies both the classics and the new generation of figures.
Before the Hoptimists saw the light of day, the Danish woodturner Hans Gustav Ehrenreich tinkered in his workshop in the house n Stilling.
It was at the end of the 1950s, and in the small workshop "Ehrenreichs Trækunst" the imagination was great. No two things were ever the same. Small silver fish were inlaid in hand-turned bowls and dishes, and unique handicrafts in woods from all over the world were sold from the workshop.
In the late 1960s, Ehrenreich created the first prototypes for Birdie, Bimble and Bumble. Soon Ehrenreich and his Hoptimists became too familiar with what the small workshop could produce. The rest of that story has today become Danish design history.
In 2009, the Hoptimist was relaunched, and today the figures are jumping again in both Denmark and the rest of the world. When they develop the design today, they do so in Ehrenreich's spirit. His basic idea was to draw the Hoptimists based on a circle and an ellipse, and that idea underlies both the classics and the new generation of figures.
Click for more ideas from Hans Gustav Ehrenreich (designer)Before the Hoptimists saw the light of day, the Danish woodturner Hans Gustav Ehrenreich tinkered in his workshop in the house on in Stilling, Denmark.
It was at the end of the 1950s, and in the small workshop 'Ehrenreichs Trækunst' the imagination was great. No two things were ever the same. Small silver fish were inlaid in hand-turned bowls and dishes, and unique handicrafts in woods from all over the world were sold from the workshop.
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