Ladislav Sutnar Modern Blocks Set

Kids can play with a piece of history with this 100 year old design set! Build and endlessly configure a brightly colored industrial town with the 25 blocks, chimneys and cars.  Produced by French toy company Vilac, this set of blocks was first created by Czech toy designer and educator Ladislav Sutnar. The original design is represented in MoMA’s collection and was featured in the Museum’s 2012 exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000.

Ages 3+. Made of MDF, massive wood and plywood. Box measures 2h x 15.75w x 9.25" d.

Ladislav Sutnar, a Czechoslovak, who was born in Plzeň in 1897 and died in New York in 1976, was a pioneer of graphic design and shared with his contemporaries of the Bauhaus artistic movement a taste for bright colours and simple geometric shapes. A game designer, in 1921 he created the “Factory Town”, a very pure educational game of blocks that Vilac reissued 100 years later in cooperation with the artist Gérard Lo Monaco and the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art. 3 unique copies still exist in the world, including one exhibited at the MoMa in New-York.