Gustaf Westman reveals first Mickey Mouse sofa, cup and tumbler for Disney

Swedish designer Gustaf Westman has revealed the first three pieces from his Disney collaboration: a Mickey tumbler, a Mickey-shaped ceramic cup and a bulbous black leather sofa that evokes the mouse's silhouette. The sofa retails for €9,250 and is part of a much larger collection.

The full line numbers 35 pieces inspired by Disney's Mickey & Friends, spanning gifts, apparel and home décor as well as collectible, made-to-order furniture. The reveal was made on 12 October 2026, with further pieces to follow on Westman's Instagram account through the rest of the month.

The Mickey tumbler is priced at €110 and reworks Westman's own Chunky Tumbler, a ceramic cup and straw set resting in a doughnut-shaped coaster. Mickey becomes an abstract arrangement of ears, red shorts with white buttons as the base, and a yellow coaster echoing his trademark shoes.

"It's probably my favourite piece," Westman said of the tumbler. "It's very simple and almost obvious in the best possible way." A second version of the same object carries a darker reading: the ceramic cup and saucer, priced at €68, is shaped as Mickey and finished entirely in black, alongside the sofa.

Where the tumbler shows the character straight on, the sofa gave the designer room to play with proportion and form. Westman drew on his postmodern aesthetic and Memphis influences to build a monochrome, sculptural piece.

Westman said Mickey & Friends are built from very simple shapes and colours that everyone understands, which he called the highest level of design. "You can look at it for one second and totally understand it," he added. "That simplicity is something I'm always trying to achieve."

A designer built on glossy colour and volume

Westman trained as an architect before establishing his Stockholm studio in 2020. Since then he has won a following for unashamedly playful work full of glossy colour and inflated, cartoon-like volume, and has collaborated with Ikea, Nike and the beauty brand Ilia.

A lifelong Disney fan, Westman described the project as a dream, and he made a research trip to Disneyland Paris to immerse himself in Mickey's world. "There is also so much emotion attached to these characters," he reflected. "People have known them since childhood, so you are designing with something that already carries all of these memories, feelings and associations."

He framed the match as natural. "Collaborating with Disney felt like a very natural creative match from the start," Westman said, describing the overlap between the characters' recognisable silhouettes and his own signature forms as two worlds coming together genuinely and effortlessly, with joy and playfulness in every piece.

Where the collection is shown and sold

The full 35-piece collection will be unveiled at a free-to-attend pop-up in Paris running from 30 October to 1 November 2026. Tokyo follows from 6 to 8 November and New York from 13 to 15 November, with visitors able to explore the line and buy selected pieces ahead of the global launch.

The collection goes on sale worldwide online on 15 November at gustafwestman.com and through Beams in Japan. Some items will also be sold at Disneyland Paris, where the campaign was photographed with Westman styled by Harry Lambert, whose clients include Harry Styles and Emma Corrin.

Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks conceived Mickey in 1928, and the company itself traces its origins as an animation studio to 1923. Westman pointed to the character's instant recognition anywhere in the world as the reason the collaboration carried weight for him as a designer.

Mickey has drawn designers before. Kelly Hoppen reimagined him for a grown-up audience, and Ron Arad decorated chairs with the mouse's oversized ears. Westman's rounded, colourful vocabulary gives the same silhouette a softer, more domestic turn, closer to the work he has done for Ikea and Nike.

The reveal lands in a homeware moment we are already tracking. Victoria Beckham launched her first tableware line with Westwing on 12 October, the same day as this announcement, and Apparatus recently debuted Act V: Afsaneh, its first full collection since 2021.

The black pieces carry the collection's sculptural, monochrome register, while the tumbler keeps the character's full colour palette. Taken together, the three objects preview a line that moves between literal recognition and abstraction, with the sofa the most daring reading of all.

Further pieces will surface on Westman's Instagram before the full line is shown in Paris.