The project
Brickapple started as a daily build posted to Instagram: a corner of New York rebuilt in brick, one piece at a time — a bodega awning, a subway entrance, a hot dog cart, a mailbox that only looks ordinary until you notice it is the right blue. The city is still being built. The shop is the part of it you can take home.
Everything sold here comes out of that same build. The street signs and subway signs are the ones that went up in the model first. The one-of-one pieces are builds that were made, photographed, sold, and never made again.
What we make
Two things, really. The first is New York as an object: buildable sets, signs and small street builds, drawn from the real thing rather than from an idea of it.
The second is your photograph on a real brick. Upload an image and it is UV-printed edge to edge onto a physical brick tile — sixteen shapes, four brick colours, sizes from a single stud to a plate you need both hands for. The same press runs at wall scale: a brick wall laid in running bond at whatever size you specify, with one image printed across the entire face. Businesses commission the larger version of all of this — a storefront rebuilt in brick, a mounted mural, branded tiles by the crate.
How it’s made
Designed, printed and assembled in the studio in Germany, then hand-packed — usually within two business days — and shipped worldwide with tracking. Nothing is drop-shipped and nothing is printed before it is ordered, which is why a custom tile takes a little longer than a warehouse would and why every one of them is checked by the person who made it.
You get fourteen days from delivery to send an unopened item back. If something arrives wrong, the studio answers the email directly.
Who’s behind it
One person: Erich Glavina, working from Greven in Germany, posting the build as @the.brickapple. There is no support team to route you around — mail to mail@thebrickapple.com reaches the person who built the thing you are asking about.
Operator details, VAT and regulatory disclosures are on the imprint page. Questions about shipping, customs and returns are answered on the FAQ, and commissions start from the business page.
Brickapple is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the LEGO Group.