Kurt Naef [electronic book] : der Spielzeugmacher / herausgegeben von Charles von Bèuren ; mit Beitrèagen = The toymaker / edited by Charles von Büren.
Contributor(s): Büren, Charles von [editor]
| Clahsen, Peer.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhèauser, Publishers for Architecture, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: online resource (159 pages) : illustrations (some color).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783764375041 (hardback); 9783764378431 (e-book) .Other title: Toymaker.Subject(s): Naef, Kurt, 1926- | Blocks (Toys) | Toy industry -- SwitzerlandAdditional physical formats: Print version.: Kurt Naef : der Spielzeugmacher.DDC classification: 688.72 Online resources: E-book Also available in print form.
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 688.72 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Kurt Naef's games are the "Rolls Royce" of wooden games. In a fast-moving and electronically oriented time, they maintain their permanent position in the marketplace with timeless design; loving, high-quality workmanship; and sound pedagogical design. The broad range of products primarily consists of puzzles and games of skill, which enable the player to experience and train in spatial imagination, geometric principles, and coordination.
The Swiss cabinetmaker and furniture builder Kurt Naef began to produce his timeless, highquality wooden games in the late 1950s, developing them on his own and with designers. He reproduced a number of classic games by celebrated designers of the Bauhaus. Naef's games are represented in the collections of important museums, for example in the Museum of Modern Art and in Japan.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print form.
Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Model of access: World Wide Web.
German and English.
TUFT Funding.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Toys You Can Touch (p. 9)
- On the Transcendence of Play (p. 11)
- N-A-E-F (p. 15)
- The Playful Road to Success (p. 17)
- The Naef of Toys (p. 69)
- Kurt Naef's Toys in Pictures (p. 72)
- Forms of Play (p. 137)
- What's Good Will Survive (p. 143)
- Commodity or Imagination? (p. 145)
- Appendix
- Designers (p. 151)
- Awards and Exhibitions (p. 157)
- Authors (p. 159)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Charles von Büren war PR-Beauftragter für Lignum (Holzwirtschaft Schweiz) und ist seit 2000 für den SIA (Schweizerischer Ingenieur- undArchitektenverein) tätig.