Filed under: Toys and games, art, decoration | Tags: Alexander Girard, colorful, decoration, dolls, wooden items
These wooden dolls made of pinewood were originally created by Girard as decorations for his Santa Fe home. Fortunately though, design museum Vitra is reissuing models 1-11. These dolls with sometimes happy, sometimes melancholy faces are hand-painted and rather indended as home decoration than as actual toys, and with their modern design, they would surely look fabulous as room decoration, not just for the nursery! They also make perfect gifts, since they arrive in a printed, wooden box.
Available at Unica Home for $150.00 each.
Filed under: Toys and games, decoration | Tags: City in a Bag, Muji, souvenirs, wooden items
Muji’s City In A Bag wooden blocks are esthetic toys available with iconic sites of New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. They are beautiful to look at and would just as well make the perfect piece of decoration on a desk, since I believe they make really original paperweights. In fact, they are not necessarily aimed at children, but at jetsetting adults with collector aspirations, in search for that perfect and unique souvenir. Besides, along all the ugly clutter available as souvenirs, it is nice to see some items that also appeal to one’s sense of beauty.
Each set retails for £5.95, available at Muji.
