Frankfurt Candy Shoppe

Released on August 20, 2020 across Rarible, the OpenSea Shared Storefront, and SuperRare, Frankfurt Candy Shoppe was conceived as a franchisable toolkit — every component a collector would need to imagine opening their own branch of the shoppe. The bundle treats the brand identity itself as the collectible. Buy the box, get the storefront.

The shoppe was built inside Cryptovoxels, the web3 metaverse, as a physical address with virtual signage, decor, vox-model props, and wearables. The bundle takes that whole place — interior and identity — and packages it as transferrable NFTs across multiple Ethereum marketplaces, so the brand exists wherever NFTs live, not just on the parcel that hosted the original storefront.

The toolkit framing predates the on-chain branding playbooks that became standard later in the cycle. The postcard, the folders piece, and the supporting franchise tokens all link back to the same fictional shoppe across contracts — it's a small, deliberate experiment in NFT-native brand design, and one of the earliest examples of treating a fictional business identity as a complete on-chain product.

PRANKSY LAND COLLABORATION

Frankfurt Candy Shoppe was originally built for Pranksy Land — a multi-artist Cryptovoxels collaboration — alongside Coldie, Hackatao, Alotta Money, and other early NFT artists who each contributed their own districts, storefronts, and characters to the parcel. The shoppe is the slice of Pranksy Land that Brinkman drew, modelled, and turned into a franchise kit.

INSPIRED BY CLAES OLDENBURG

The franchise concept was directly inspired by Claes Oldenburg's storefront installations — particularly The Store (1961), where Oldenburg turned a Lower East Side shopfront into a working "shoppe" selling sculpted, plaster-and-enamel everyday goods as art. Brinkman's take ports that gesture into a virtual metaverse: the shoppe is the artwork, the goods inside it are the artwork, and the franchise-kit packaging is the work that lets a collector "open" their own.

THE BRINKMAN ESTATE RE-ACQUIRES THE COLLECTION

The original owner held the full bundle for five years, franchising the shoppe into other metaverses along the way — vox-model versions of the storefront's wearables and decor turning up wherever Cryptovoxels-shaped NFTs found a new home. In 2025 the Brinkman Estate brought the Frankfurt Candy Shoppe bundle back together, reclaiming the toolkit pieces and consolidating the franchise under one roof so the bundle could be preserved the way it was first released: as a complete, indivisible storefront kit rather than a scatter of unrelated tokens across multiple marketplaces. Brinkman walked through the buy-back on X in 2025.

Two pieces remain outside the estate: Crypto Candy and Candy Fountain are held by the Origin Art Museum. The reunion is otherwise complete.