Showing posts with label Friedrich the Great. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friedrich the Great. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Sack the creative director

The esteemed KPM Konigsliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Berlin is celebrating 250 years of equisite porcelain products with a collectors item: the Friedrich the Great Potato

Apparently Friedrich is responsible not only for establishing a competitive porcelain factory to rival King August's Meissen business but he also introduced the potato to the Prussians. Fancy that!

And here it is: 95 euro for the naturalistisch and 115 euro mit Gold Staffage


At what point did the creative chain of communication break? This looks like a polished poo!



And on prominent display at the entry of KPM, Berlin; Friedrick with raining poo-like potatoes.

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