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Kurt Naef - der Spielzeugmacher / the Toymaker

Von Buren, Charles; Clahsen, Peer; Kaysel, Roger; Naef, Kurt; Nishikawa, Toshiko
ISBN-10: 3764375043
ISBN-13: 9783764375041

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Kurt Naef-Spiele sind der ??Rolls Royce?? unter den Holzspielen. In schnelllebiger und elektronisch gepr??gter Zeit behaupten sie ihren festen Platz im Markt: mit zeitlosem Design, liebevoller und hochwertiger Verarbeitung und p??dagogisch durchdachtem Entwurf. Die breite Produktpalette zeigt vorwiegend Gedulds- und Geschicklichkeitsspiele, mit denen sich r??umliches Vorstellungsverm??gen, geometrische Gesetzm????igkeiten sowie Koordination erleben und erlernen lassen.
Der Schweizer Schreiner und M??belbauer Kurt Naef begann in den sp??ten 1950er Jahren mit der Produktion zeitlos hochwertiger Holzspiele, in Eigenentwicklung und zusammen mit Designern. Er reproduzierte einige Spiele-Klassiker von renommierten Bauhaus-Entwerfern. Naef-Spiele sind in bedeutenden Museumssammlungen vertreten, so etwa im Museum of Modern Art und in Japan.In a world of Game Boys and X-Boxes, the games of Kurt Naef maintain their position in the market due to loving, high-quality workmanship and timeless design. The Swiss cabinetmaker and furniture builder Kurt Naef began to produce his timeless, high-quality wooden games in the late 1950s, developing them on his own and with well-known designers. He reproduced a number of classic games by celebrated designers from the Bauhaus. His broad range of products consist primarily of puzzles and games of skill, which enable the player to experience and train their spatial imagination, geometric principles, and coordination. Naef's games are represented in the collections of important museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. Kurt Naef: The Toymaker is the first comprehensive work on the work of Kurt Naef and will be published to celebrate the game designer's eightieth birthday.
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Toys You Can Touch
On the Transcendence of Play
N-A-E-F
The Playful Road to Success
The Naef of Toys
Kurt Naef's Toys in Pictures
Forms of Play
What's Good Will Survive
Commodity or Imagination?
Appendix
Designers
Awards and Exhibitions
Authors






List price: $60.00
Edition: 2006
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag GmbH
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 159
Size: 7.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.63 lbs.
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