No, they’re not petite satin pillows on your ears. They’re overpriced headphone covers, à la Vermeer.
Silky blue headphone slips impressed by the elusive Dutch grasp’s 1665 “Girl With a Pearl Earring” are simply one among many digital equipment which have come out of a brand new collaboration between the Mauritshuis artwork museum within the Hague and the Hong Kong-based telephone case firm Casetify. The slips are supposed to be worn over Apple’s AirPods Max, and as a reporter for the Verge famous, they sadly cowl the headphones’ controls.
Priced at a measly $184 (not a joke) and already out of inventory, the slips mimic the blue headwrap worn by the unique portray’s topic and even function an iridescent resin pearl earring dangling from one facet. The product line additionally contains telephone instances and laptop computer sleeves impressed by Seventeenth-century Dutch masterworks like “The Goldfinch” (1654) by Carel Fabritius and Jan Davidsz de Heem’s “Vase with Flowers” (1670).
The collaboration comes at a time when it looks like an increasing number of cultural establishments are teaming up with buying mall-caliber manufacturers in generally weird and surprising partnerships (suppose: The Met x Pacsun or Lancôme x Louvre). What’s subsequent? Sunflower nipple pasties by Van Gogh Museum x Nood? (Hey, I’m not opposed.)
