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The Mickey Mouse Gourmet Collection

Sugar Basin and Spoon
1991 (designed), 1991 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Michael Graves (b. 1934), one of the most diverse architectural and product designers in the USA has completed a wide variety of projects for public and private clients worldwide. His distinctive style blends perfectly for the Walt Disney Company for whom he has designed the Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Hotels in Orlando, Florida, the Disney Company Corporate Headquarters in Burbank, California and the Hotel New York at the Euro-Disney Resort.

Graves is well known as an artist and the designer of furniture and decorative accessories. In addition to custom designs for corporate and residential projects, Graves' work includes collections of furniture, floor tiles, carpets and rugs, lighting fixtures, tableware and household objects. His landscapes, murals and prints are represented in numerous museums and private collections. The Mickey Mouse Gourmet Collection is his first consumer product for Disney.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Sugar Basin
  • Lid for a Sugar Basin
  • Sugar Spoon
TitleThe Mickey Mouse Gourmet Collection (series title)
Materials and techniques
Stainless steel, polished
Brief description
Sugar basin and spoon, stainless steel and plastic, designed by Michael Graves, made by Möller Design for the Walt Disney Company, Santa Ana, California, USA, 1991.
Physical description
Sugar basin of polished stainless steel, hemispherical body on a flat circular base with a plain, moulded rim, the base with a recessed channel around the circumference. Circular opening at the top into which fits a domed lid, following the radius of the body, a recessed flange and surmounted by a ball finial of slate blue plastic. A rectangular section cut into the rim to accommodate the spoon. The handles, a pair of looped wire sections attached to either side of the opening suggesting Mickey Mouse ears.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.2cm
  • Diameter: 10.5cm
  • Spoon height: 107mm
  • Spoon width: 23mm
  • Spoon depth: 11mm
Style
Subject depicted
Summary
Michael Graves (b. 1934), one of the most diverse architectural and product designers in the USA has completed a wide variety of projects for public and private clients worldwide. His distinctive style blends perfectly for the Walt Disney Company for whom he has designed the Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Hotels in Orlando, Florida, the Disney Company Corporate Headquarters in Burbank, California and the Hotel New York at the Euro-Disney Resort.

Graves is well known as an artist and the designer of furniture and decorative accessories. In addition to custom designs for corporate and residential projects, Graves' work includes collections of furniture, floor tiles, carpets and rugs, lighting fixtures, tableware and household objects. His landscapes, murals and prints are represented in numerous museums and private collections. The Mickey Mouse Gourmet Collection is his first consumer product for Disney.
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
M.31:1 to 3-2010

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Record createdNovember 16, 2010
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