July 26, 2012
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.
