Monday, December 7, 2009
OWLS have been published in Inc. Magazine
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (Bauspiel)
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher |
Bauspiel |
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher was the first Bauhaus practitioner to take children's design seriously. Siedhoff-Buscher saw children's design--including toys, furniture, and utensils--as a way out of the textile department, where she'd been confined with all the other women by Walter Gropius. The critical success of the result--a children's room at the landmark Bauhaus exhibit of 1923--probably helped vindicate Siedhoff-Buscher's view of things a bit.
In 1923, Siedhoff-Buscher designed the boat-like wooden block
set still being produced by Naef, Swiss maker of wooden toys.
The Bauspiel Blocks come in atypical shapes, which makes them a bit more interesting than the standard block sets.
Bauhaus Bauspiel blocks are $150 at kid-o [kidonyc.com]
Bauhaus Archiv Museum for Design [bauhaus.de]