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

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.
Wiener Werkstätte.

Holdings:

Location: Library main objects 60832
Call No.: TS2301.T7.W6 W54 1920
Status: Available