Vintage View: The works of MI Hummel

Kya deLongchamps considers the cherubic cabinet cuties of MI Hummel, which despite their innocuous subject matter, threatened a Führer.

THE cavity-forming sweetness until recently, (possibly with the rearrangement of my hormones), would send Ms deLongchamps bursting through the wall to attempt escape.

As my 11-year-old sage would say — ‘creep-tosa’. MI Hummel figurines, those flamed-cheeked little butterballs with their knock knees, whipped cream hair, pinafores and lederhosen, populated mantelpieces in stiff little gangs for an entire generation of sentimental baby-boomers.