Jaime Hayon 'Folkboy Dreamer' Sculptures Open for Draw at HK$78,500 (~$10,000)

AllRightsReserved's DDT Store opened a draw for Jaime Hayon's Folkboy Dreamer — two one-meter sculptures, blue and yellow, each an edition of three priced at HK$78,500 (~$10,000), with registration closing July 6.

Jaime Hayon 'Folkboy Dreamer' Sculptures Open for Draw at HK$78,500 (~$10,000)
Jaime Hayon "Folkboy Dreamer." Photo: DDT Store / AllRightsReserved

Key Points

  • Jaime Hayon's "Folkboy Dreamer" arrives as two one-meter sculptures, in blue and yellow.
  • Each colorway is an edition of 3, priced at HK$78,500 (~$10,000).
  • The sale runs as a draw on AllRightsReserved's DDT Store.
  • Registration closes July 6 at 6am EDT / 12pm CEST / 6pm HKT.

DDT Store, the online shop run by Hong Kong's AllRightsReserved, has opened a draw for "Folkboy Dreamer," a new pair of one-meter sculptures by the Spanish artist and designer Jaime Hayon. The work comes in two colorways — blue and yellow — each limited to an edition of three and priced at HK$78,500 (~$10,000). Registration is open now and closes on July 6.

The Folkboy is pure Hayon: a glossy, totem-like figure with a masked, harlequin face, dressed in a patterned folk costume and standing on stubby roller-skate feet that have their own little faces. It is the playful, folk-art figuration that has run through his sculpture for two decades, blown up to human scale.

Hayon, born in 1974, is one of the few figures who moves fluidly between fine art and blue-chip design. He has created work for Baccarat, Fritz Hansen, Lladró, and Cassina, shown the "Funtastico" retrospective at the Groninger Museum and the whimsical "Tiovivo" sculptures at the High Museum of Art, and installed the giant chess-set piece "The Tournament" in London's Trafalgar Square. A one-meter production sculpture sold by lottery is a different distribution model than a gallery or a luxury-brand commission.

That is the part worth watching. AllRightsReserved spent the last decade turning limited-edition art objects into a lottery-driven market — the draw format, the triple-timezone deadline, the deliberately tiny run. Pulling a design-world name like Hayon into that machine collapses the distance between the collectible-art-toy world and the fine-art-and-design world. At HK$78,500 and an edition of three, this is not a vinyl toy priced for volume; it is a gallery-scale sculpture sold by raffle. It is the same collector energy that turns KAWS figures into status objects and made a Toronto ice sculpture a participatory event — now aimed at a one-of-three art edition.

An edition of three per colorway means six of these sculptures will exist in the world. The draw decides who gets to buy at retail; the secondary market decides everything after that. Registration for both colorways runs on DDT Store until 6am EDT / 12pm CEST / 6pm HKT on July 6, with winners selected by draw.

Source: DDT Store

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