Title & Author:

Fabrik von Prof. Josef Hoffmann.

Publication:

[approximately 1920] ([Vienna : Wiener Werkstätte])

Description:

1 set of building blocks : painted wood ; various sizes in cardboard box 11 x 35 x 29 cm

Notes:
Library copy: 29 pieces.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Les jouets et la tradition moderniste = Toys and the modernist tradition", Centre canadien d'architecture, Dec. 15, 1993-May 1, 1994;
Exhibited: "Toying with architecture: the building toy in the arena of play, 1800 to the present", Katonah Museum of Art., Sept. 28, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998.
Exhibited: "L'idée de la grande ville: l'architecture moderne d'europe centrale, 1890-1937 = Shaping the great city: modern architecture in central Europe, 1890-1937", Obecní dům, Prague, Czech Republic, Dec. 14, 1999-Mar. 1, 2000; Centre canadien d'architecture, May 23-Oct. 15, 2000; J. Paul Getty Museum, Feb. 20-May 13, 2001; Kunstforum Wien, June 14-Aug. 26, 2004.
Exhibited: "Los juguetes de las vanguardias = Toys of the Avant-Garde", Museo Picasso Malaga, Oct. 4, 2010-Jan. 30, 2011.
Exhibited: "Century of the child : growing by design 1900-2000", Museum of Modern Art, July 24-Nov. 5, 2012.
Exhibited: "Les jouets et la tradition moderniste = Toys and the modernist tradition", Centre canadien d'architecture, Dec. 15, 1993-May 1, 1994;
Exhibited: "Toying with architecture: the building toy in the arena of play, 1800 to the present", Katonah Museum of Art., Sept. 28, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998.
Exhibited: "L'idée de la grande ville: l'architecture moderne d'europe centrale, 1890-1937 = Shaping the great city: modern architecture in central Europe, 1890-1937", Obecní dům, Prague, Czech Republic, Dec. 14, 1999-Mar. 1, 2000; Centre canadien d'architecture, May 23-Oct. 15, 2000; J. Paul Getty Museum, Feb. 20-May 13, 2001; Kunstforum Wien, June 14-Aug. 26, 2004
Exhibited: "Los juguetes de las vanguardias = Toys of the Avant-Garde", Museo Picasso Malaga, Oct. 4, 2010-Jan. 30, 2011.
Exhibited: "Century of the child : growing by design 1900-2000", Museum of Modern Art, July 24-Nov. 5, 2012

Summary:

Designed by Josef Hoffmann and hand-made by members of the Wiener Werkstätte, Hoffmann's "Fabrik" is more a factory town than a factory, with office and living-quarter components included amongst the industrial buildings. Like Ladislav Sutnar's "Factory Town" building blocks of about the same period, the toy is far from austere, although for entirely different reasons. Sutnar's ten blocks, in three basic geometric shapes (cubes, cones, triangular wedges), are painted in cheerful primary colours with door and window patterns in white. Hoffmann's twenty-nine factory pieces, although painted pale grey with darker grey roof tops, are nonetheless light in feeling with their graceful arched elements and their thousands of tiny, hand-painted windows. The delicate floral sprays which adorn many of the pieces are carried forward in another form to decorate the box

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Subject:

Wooden toys Austria Specimens.
Blocks (Toys) Austria Specimens.
Toys Austria Specimens.
Jouets en bois Autriche Spécimens.
Cubes (Pièces de jeu) Autriche Spécimens.
Jouets Autriche Spécimens.
Blocks (Toys)
Toys.
Wooden toys.
Austria.

Form/genre:

Stacking assembly system toys.
Specimens.

Added entries:

Hoffmann, Josef, 1870-1956.
Hoffmann, Josef Franz Maria, 1870-1956
Wiener Werkstätte.

Holdings:

Location: Library main jouets et jeux 60832
Call No.: TS2301.T7.W6 W54 1920
Status: Available