It's great to see that one of our all time favorite products, the Stokke Tripp Trapp, is being celebrated at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The Tripp Trapp is featured in the current MOMA exhibition called 'Century of the Child - growing by design'. For those of us who can't jump on a plane to NY to see the exhibition here's a great multi media walk through
here is it
The exhibition will bring together areas underrepresented in design history and often considered separately, including school architecture, clothing, playgrounds, toys and games, children’s hospitals and safety equipment, nurseries, furniture, and books. it's a fascinating look at the products that may well have defined your childhood.
A fantastic image of two boys dressed in spaceman suits certainly took me back to my own eighth birthday in the 70's and my new silver spaceman suit.
As part of the exhibition tribute is paid to the Tripp Trapp and there's a great video interview with the chairs inventor Peter Opsvik - it's really worth a watch, giving both the thought process behind the chair and a quirky explanation of how the Trapp Trapp gained it's famous name
you can watch the video here!
The exhibition shows some fantastic pieces of past toys and educational pieces, here are just a few!
1. Barbie’s Dream House, 1962, manufactured by Mattel
Here's the original Barbie Dream House from 50 years ago!
2. Teaching Materials conceived by Maria Montessori, 1925
Many children still attend the well-known Montessori-method schools, which developed as an activity-based teaching method that stimulated children’s senses with material objects. This is one of the first original sensory kits.
3. Child’s Rocker, 1970, designed by Gloria Caranica
This great piece still looks fresh and highly desirable.
5. The Bamboozler, 1953, designed by Richard Neagle
This child’s clothes tree is another example of how some pieces aren’t merely design fads and are as coll today as when they were designed (nearly 70years ago)
