Title & Author:

Ingenius "Baby" Nr. 006,895 serie II.

Publication:

[192-] (Vienna, Austria : Ingenius Technische & Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H.)

Description:

1 construction set (233 pieces) : wood (beech) ; in box 21 x 30 x 11 cm + 7 design sheets (35 x 25 cm) + 2 booklets ([8] pages and [16] pages ; 17 x 26 cm and 18 x 27 cm) + 2 door and window sheets (19 x 16 cm)

Notes:
Title from side of box cover.
Mounted, chromolithographed cover ill. incorporates the words "The new city", with monogram and name "Willrab."
One of the accompanying booklets, with caption title '"Ingenius" building box, ' lists contents of all sets. Baby set is listed as including 48 patterns. Text in English, French, and German. Publisher information from this booklet. Other accompanying booklet contains photographs of designs as built. Includes two sheets with door and window designs for cutting and placing on completed buildings. Each brick is numbered so that the designs may be followed.

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.

Summary:

At the time of its production, "Ingenius" was advertised as surpassing all other such construction kits in the possibilities it offered for expression, free creative design and artistic effect.
The toy's accompanying literature, in English, French and German, was edited by its probable designers, architects Wilhelm Heinrich Kreis and C.A. Juengst. They describe the set as both a toy for children and "a modelling box for architects and engineers", among its many other stated functions. While Ingenius "Baby" includes 233 fine beechwood pieces, the "New City" set contained 3000 of these components and could be used for constructions up to 12 feet in height. According to the literature, the sizes of the pieces were determined on the basis of mathematical laws, and the shapes according to the "laws of the architectural and engineering art and of other artistic professions."

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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:

Tongue-and-groove assembly system toys.
Specimens.

Added entries:

Willrab, 1897-1973.
Ingenius Technische & Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H.

Holdings:

Location: Library main objects 94078
Call No.: TS2301.T7.W6 I54 1920
Status: Available