
Design for the Modern Child
May 25, 2013 - October 14, 2013

Child's Chair, Designed 1961
Designed by Marco Zanuso, Italian
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Design for the Modern Child
May 25, 2013 - October 14, 2013
This exhibition will feature some of
the latest furniture, toys, tableware,
wallpaper, and textiles designed
internationally in Australia, Asia,
Europe, Great Britain, and the
United States, along with classics
from the Museum’s design collection.
A number of these objects will
make their American debut in the
exhibition, from Marie-Louise
Groot Kormelink’s Dutch rowhouse
wardrobes and a contemporary-style dollhouse, to Josefina Bentzen
and Charlotte Skak’s
Kitchen Kids, a
series of prototype Danish kitchen
tools for children that includes a
vegetable peeler, grater, mixing
bottle, knife, chopping board, and
protective mittens. Also making
its premiere appearance will be a
custom-built, sustainable
Cardboard
Cubby House—a towering playhouse
designed by Australian architects
Bennett and Trimble for the Perelman
Building’s Skylit Atrium that small
visitors can explore and learn to build
themselves from plans provided by
the architects.
This exhibition is part of Art Splash, a suite of five family-friendly exhibitions, interactive art and play zones, and daily family programs.
Curator
Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger, The J. Mahlon Buck, Jr. Family Senior Curator of European Decorative Arts
after 1700
Location
Collab Gallery, first floor, Perelman Building