Magnet Master. Set no. 900 : a new creative toy / designed by Carrara ; sponsored by Walker Art Center. [electronic resource].

[Distributed by the Walker Art Center] [Indiana Steel Products Corporation?] ©1948

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Magnet Master was designed by architect Arthur Carrara, who had been a student of Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus in Chicago; it was developed by Carrara and his two brothers Reno and Alfonso in collaboration with the Indiana Steel Products Corporation. In 1948 the three brothers conducted a highly successful Magnet Master workshop at the Walker Art Center involving about 3000 children. First presented in the Summer 1948 issue of the Walker Art Center's "Everyday Art Quarterly", the toy was described in a later issue (Winter-Spring 1949) as not only "an exciting and rewarding playtime device for children of all ages", but also as having been proven an ideal design tool based on sessions with art students from 20 to 30 years of age

Jouets en métal États-Unis Spécimens; Metal toys United States Specimens; Magnet Master (Toy); Carrara, Arthur A. (Arthur Alfonso), 1914-1995; Carrara, Arthur A. (Arthur Alfonso), 1914-

Metal Toys (recreational artifacts); Magnetic assembly system toys; Construction toys; Magnetic Toys (recreational artifacts)

Indiana Steel Products Corporation; Walker Art Center;
Carrara, Arthur A. (Arthur Alfonso), 1914-1995.