Arabia Moomin Jar #11
Friendship (2016–)
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The jar Friendship was launched in 2015 and is still in production. The original images are from Tove Jansson’s novel Who will comfort Toffle? A mug, a pitcher, a serving bowl and a plate complete ...
The jar Friendship was launched in 2015 and is still in production. The original images are from Tove Jansson’s novel Who will comfort Toffle? A mug, a pitcher, a serving bowl and a plate complete the Friendship series.
Additional information
Name
Friendship
Product category
Moomin Jar
Serial number
11
Production period
2016–
Theme
Special products
Brand
Arabia
Product designer
Pekka Paikkari
Graphic designer
Tove Slotte
Characters
Mymble
Salome
The Hattifatteners
Toffle
Too-Ticky
Original image
Book - Who Will Comfort Toffle? (1960) - Tove Jansson
Measurements
Height: 15.8, Width: 12.5, Diameter: 12.0 cm
Weight
1100 g
Volume
1200 ml
Colors
Black, Multicolor
Material
Vitro porcelain
Type
Jar
Designers
Pekka Paikkari
Pekka Paikkari (b. 1960) is a designer and sculptor. Paikkari has been designing tableware and ornaments for Iittala and Arabia for thirty years.
Tove Slotte
Tove Slotte, born in 1957, is a Finnish artist and a graphic designer. She is a professional ceramist. Tove Slotte worked at Arabia from 1985 to 1990, after which she has worked as a freelance designer. She is best known for designing and illustrating the Moomin products for Iittala and Arabia ceramics. Tove Slotte has been a Moomin fan since her childhood. She says her favourite Moomin book is The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My. Tove Slotte has designed the Moomin products for Arabia for more than 30 years.
Characters
Too-Ticky
Too-Ticky is a wise and helpful friend of the Moomins. Unlike most of the inhabitants of Moominvalley, she doesn’t hibernate. Too-Ticky is skilled at solving problems, and she is quite perky by nature. Too-Ticky spends her winters in the Moomin bath house, with invisible shrews to keep her company! Too-Ticky believes that everyone learns through their experiences and mistakes. She likes repairing things. Too-Ticky wears a striped shirt, dark trousers and a cap with a tussle. She first appeared in Tove Jansson’s novel Moominland Midwinter.
Mymble
Mymble is a helpful and kind person, who takes care of her siblings. Her little sister Little My is very different from her. Mymble is a dreamer who daydreams of finding love. With her contemplating nature Mymble is more like her step-brother Snufkin. On the outside she resembles Little My, as she wears her hair in the same way and wears a pink dress. Mymble is introduced in Tove Jansson’s novel The Memoirs of Moominpappa.
Salome
Ötökkä Salome on pieni Taikatalvi-teoksessa esiintynyt nainen, joka tulee talvella uimahuoneella asumaan. Hän asustaa muumien meripihkasta tehdyssä koristeraitiovaunussa. Salome tykkäisi kuunnella myös torvensoittoa, mutta torvea kantavalla Reippailja-Hemulilla ei ole aikaa soitteluun. Tämä tekee Salomen surulliseksi.
The Hattifatteners
Wandering silently in large flocks, the Hattifatteners are peculiar creatures. Hattifatteners don’t eat, sleep or speak at all. They are only interested in traveling forward, to the horizon and beyond. Hattifatteners resemble narrow and pointy mushrooms, with tiny arms and eyes. When it thunders, they transform into lightning rods and should be avoided. Otherwise they are quite harmless. On the Midsummer day Hattifatteners gather together on their own island, but after that they continue their eternal wandering. The first time hattifatteners were seen in Tove Jansson’s novel The Moomins and the Great Flood.
Toffle
The easily frightened, shy Toffle also lives in Moominvalley. Toffle is lonely, and one day he goes out to find adventure and friends. He finds a message in a bottle, written by a lonely girl called Miffle. Toffle decides to save Miffle from the atrocious Groke. Toffle is a dark haired character dressed in a dark coat, and he was introduced in Tove Jansson’s novel Who will comfort Toffle?
