From BLOUIN ART INFO: “From the Slinky to the Sims, A New MoMA Show Surveys the Designs That Made the “Century of the Child”"
You can read the entire review of this New York Museum of Modern Art exhibition here:
Here are some excerpts:
NEW YORK — Although we were all once children, somewhere between puberty and college most of us forgot what that experience was like. When MoMA‘s exhibition “Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000“ opens July 29, it will serve as a reminder, as it surveys the path children’s design took from its roots in the early 20th century all the way through the creation of the Sims. It reflects the evolving image society has had of its little ones, how design has followed suit, and what LEGOs have in common with Tetris.
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Just beyond the somber black wall of the “Children and the Body Politic,” a bright yellow room explodes in primary colors, focusing on the regenerative postwar period. It was then that Charles and Ray Eames started making their chairs of molded plywood in miniature, stained in a palette of yellows, magentas, and blues; a small red one with a heart-shaped cutout in its back support sits under glass. It’s also the period when our enduring classics first appeared: the Slinky, the Etch-a-Sketch, and the all-time classic, the LEGO building block.
Childs Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1944
Photo by Janelle Zara
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