This object is currently on display in room 201 as part of Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection. See our image rights statement.
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Sidewall, Zwarte Piet Delft Tile
This is a sidewall. It was designed by Sheila Bridges and manufactured by Sheila Bridges Home. It is dated 2021 and we acquired it in 2021. Its medium is digital print on paper. It is a part of the department.
This wallpaper by interior designer Sheila Bridges interrogates the past by artfully reimagining the traditional master-and-servant relationship between Sinterklass, the Dutch version of St. Nicholas, and his Black helper, Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). Over the course of the repeat, modeled after classic Dutch blue-and-white ceramic tiles, Zwarte Piet is transformed from an obedient sidekick to a free agent, with Sinterklaas ultimately bagged up in the empty toy sack, like one of the naughty children he and Piet would take back to their home base of Spain.
This object was
donated by
twenty2 wallpaper and Sheila Bridges.
It is credited Gift of twenty2 wallpaper.
Its dimensions are
H x W: 107 × 75.9 cm (42 1/8 × 29 7/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Right and left selvedges: "'Zwarte Piet Delft Tile" An original print by Sheila Bridges Home ©2016 www.sheilabridges.com"
Cite this object as
Sidewall, Zwarte Piet Delft Tile; Designed by Sheila Bridges (American, b.1964); Manufactured by Sheila Bridges Home; digital print on paper; H x W: 107 × 75.9 cm (42 1/8 × 29 7/8 in.); Gift of twenty2 wallpaper; 2021-22-1
