Tom of Finland
Mooning Sailor Socks
£12
Crew socks featuring a mooning sailor from an advert of mail-order rubber stamps by Tom of Finland, exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Dimensions
EU Size 43-46
Finishing
80% cotton, 15% polyamide, 5% elastane
Designed with a flexible ribbed welt and made from high-quality combed yarn with a chunky terry cloth knit.
Tom of Finland, 'Untitled', 1962. From the Atlantic Model Guild 'The Tattooed Sailor' series. © 1962 Tom of Finland Foundation.Courtesy the Tom of Finland Foundation
About The Artwork
With few copyright protections, Tom of Finland’s images were frequently pirated. In response, the artist established the Tom of Finland Company with Durk Dehner in 1979 to protect his rights and publish his work, producing a wide range of associated merchandise, including t-shirts, rubber stamps, and even sex toys. These cotton sports crew socks, featuring a Sailor Moon design from a magazine advert for mail-order rubber stamps by Tom of Finland, have been made exclusively for House of Voltaire. This coincides with Studio Voltaire’s major exhibition ‘Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland’, bringing together the work of these two cultural icons for the very first time.
About Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, b.1920- d.1991) has been the subject of numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, including ‘Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland’ at Studio Voltaire, as well as Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Gallery X Tokyo and Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Artists Space New York Kunsthalle Helsinki and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Key group exhibitions include ARoS Aarhus Art Museum Denmark, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Institute of Contemporary Art London and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation New York. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and SFMOMA, San Francisco.