Warhol Foundation Cardboard Brillo Box

three one thousand dollar warhol brillo box cardboard collectables stacked, white yellow, green on a wooden table with a marcel wanders egg vase on a shelf underneath, and a wall of bookcases in the background, via avantarte dot com — Warhol Foundation x Avant.Arte Brillo Box Collectables, 2026, starting at 7 x 7 x 5.75 in., $978., via

Beyoncé. Louis Vuitton. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Truly we are in a WTF thousand-dollar limited edition box moment.

The Warhol Foundation has licensed three of its copyrighted and trademarked versions of AbEx painter James Harvey’s iconic Brillo Box design to Avant.Arte, which has turned them into three collectable cardboard boxes, framed flat or ready to assemble, each in a limited edition of 1,000. Yellow Brillo boxes were rare. Green ones were non-existent [this colorway is from a poster for a 1970 show in Pasadena.] But churning out hundreds of boxes, in slightly varied dimensions, fabricated by someone else, at a distance, with vague authorization, were definitely the norm for Warhol’s Brillo Boxes.

a disembodied white guy's hand scrunches the corner of a white foam warhol brillo box against a white void — Warhol Foundation x Fab Brillo Pouf, 2013, 39 x 39 x 39 cm, via Fast Company

And it turns out to be the norm for Warhol Foundation Brillo Boxes, too. In 2013 there was the Brillo Pouf, produced for Fab in coated foam [by Quinze & Milan, the marketing studio whose commercially produced Burning Man pavilion turned out to be part of an ongoing Lexus campaign to debut a new model at Art Basel Miami Beach.]

a yellow warhol brillo box copy in plywood with a lid sits on a plywood rietveld zigzag chair copy, with half a dozen other zigzag chairs in the background in a variety of minecraft block ass paint textures, and a wall of yet more plywood cubes, some with arty doors, all from the plywood paradise that is dope! art [sic] gallery — Plywood Brillo Box with actual lid, 40 x 40 x 39 cm, amidst the plywood splendor of Dope!’s Shanghai showroom or whatever idek

There’s a possibly bootleg plywood box with a lid introduced as an edition of 500 in 2016, which seems to live on as a DIY kit produced by Chinese Plywood Mill?

the bottom face of a kidrobot plush warhol brillo box cube looks like a yellow tshirt stretched across a foam cube, but it's authentic enough to be authorized by the warhol foundation, which claims copyright and registered trademark on this object, and armely or whatever the name of the company that owns the brillo trademark. for sale at the mca chicago — Just look at the IP maneuvering required to bring the 12 x 12 x 12 in. Warhol Foundation X kidrobot plush Brillo Pillow – LARGE ($90, $81 for members) to your MCA Chicago shopping cart.

Any of Avant.Arte’s boxes are too small to hold the Warhol Foundation x kidrobot Brillo Plush – LARGE, but they probably fit one of kidrobot x Warhol Foundation’s 2017 Brillo Blind Boxes. Each Brillo tin holds one of sixteen Warhol Foundation plush or vinyl mini collectibles. According to this rarity ratio, 1/12 were white vinyl mini Brillo Boxes, and 1/48 were yellow.

two photos from ebay seller couture supreme of a display case of 24 kidrobot blind box brillo box tins, one with the case closed and looking most like an actual warhol brillo box, even tho it's printed all over with kidrobot collectable text, and the other with the lid open and the 24 shrinkwrapped tins inside. the box seems to have been photographed in a medieval times dungeon — 24 KIDROBOT x ANDY WARHOL BRILLO BOX MINI-SIZED BLIND BOXES WITH COLLECTIBLE ANDY WARHOL OBJECTS IN DISPLAY CASE, $219.95 from ebay seller Couture Supreme (4551)

Unlike the Warhol Foundation, I’m just going to stop.

[FEW MINUTES LATER UPDATE] I can’t stop. @ware.ian just pointed out there are also 100 “lifesize” cardboard Warhol Foundation Brillo Box Collectables, which simultaneously evokes and has no relation to the 500 actual cardboard Brillo boxes Pontus Hulten shipped to Stockholm for Warhol’s 1968 show at the Moderna Museet. Hulten went on to fabricate entire generations of Brillo Boxes after lying about having received Warhol’s authorization to do so in 1968. I, for one, would like to see a Stockholm-Type cardboard Brillo box.

a black and white 1968 photo by Nils-Göran Hökby of a giant wall/mountain/pyramid of cardboard brillo boxes stacked eleven high, with some stacked asew, and some slightly artful asymmetrical stacks in the foreground, at the moderna museet in stockholm, where curator pontus hulten decided to save on shipping by buying 500 actual boxes from brillo rather than bring over a significant number of warhol painted wood versions. — 1968 installation at Moderna Museet of actual Brillo boxes, photo: Nils-Göran Hökby