Heinen Delfts Blauw has opened the doors to their very first Delft blue store in America. The store – opened on 21April, 2025 – located in the city of Holland in Michigan, surrounded by Dutch place names, the stunning Michigan lake and near the vibrant city Chicago.
“It’s been a lifelong dream of me to open our own Heinen Delfts Blauw store in America”, says CEO Jorrit Heinen. “And now it’s finally happened. We’ve opened our doors just in time for the Tulip Time Festival.”
The new Heinen Delfts Blauw store is run by Jorrit’s son Maurits. “We are a true family company, once started by my father Jaap in a small town in the Netherlands. He used to sit down with his painting equipment on markets and painted porcelain vases in Delft blue and Imari style. I grew up admiring my father’s work and joined him when demand started to grow. We continued to grow and opened stores in Amsterdam and Delft and later also on the tropical islands of Bonaire and Curaçao. I feel proud that my son Maurits now takes the company even further and set up and runs the store in Holland, Michigan.”
American customers aren’t new to Heinen Delfts Blauw. “American tourists in the Netherlands used to be our main customers for a long time”, Jorrit continues. “They have a deep love for traditional, artisan products from Europe, where most of their roots lay. We already sell souvenirs through resellers in America, but these past few years we have invested a lot of time into developing new Home collections, including vases, wall decoration and tableware. We think it’s time to make these home decorations available for the American market. We hope these new Delft blue collections will be just as popular as our souvenir collections and that the American customer will fall in love with our designs, just like we fell in love with America.”
Address: 18 E 8th Street, Holland, MI
Opening times: 7 days a week 10:00 – 18:00
