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Swedish Wooden Toys

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B01=Amy F. Ogata
B01=Susan Weber
Category1=Non-Fiction
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COP=United States
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Format=BC
HMM=254
IMPN=Yale University Press
ISBN13=9780300200751
Language_English
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Price=€50 to €100
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Subject=Industrial/commercial Art & Design
WG=1615
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780300200751
  • Weight: 1633g
  • Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Jul 2014
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

The Swedish toy industry has long produced vast quantities of colorful, quality wooden items that reflect Scandinavian design and craft traditions. This superbly illustrated book, including specially commissioned photography, looks at over 200 years of Swedish toys, from historic dollhouses to the latest designs for children.  Featuring rattles, full-size rocking horses, dollhouses, and building blocks to skis, sleds, and tabletop games with intricate moving parts, Swedish Wooden Toys also addresses images of Swedish childhood, the role of the beloved red Dala horse in the creation of national identity, the vibrant tradition of educational toys, and the challenges of maintaining craft manufacturing in an era of global mass-production. 

 

 




Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center


Exhibition Schedule:

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs
(06/18/14–01/11/15)

Bard Graduate Center
March 2015

Stockholm
Summer 2015
About
Amy F. Ogata is professor of 19th- and 20th-century architectural and design history, Bard Graduate Center, New York. Susan Weber is founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center, New York, and Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts.