Asked to write about furniture design for children seemed to me at first sight rather straightforward. Exploring the literature, however, made it clear that the subject is quite a broad and complex one. It was going to be less easy than I thought. The wide diversity of psychological, pedagogical and didactic standpoints, the varying cultural backgrounds, and the heterogeneity of the genre - from cradle to space hopper - all contribute to a haziness of the subject's boundaries that makes it practically impossible to treat it as a general topic. So what can count as children's furniture? Small chairs and tables? Undoubtedly - but not these alone. It begins with the cradle and the baby walker, which is so pre-eminently the first item of childhood furniture that it has become a metaphor for the origin of something in its own right. But a perambulator can also serve as a cradle when stationary; does that make it an item of furniture rather than a vehicle? There are child-specific furniture types, such as high chairs, baby walkers and playpens. And then there are cot beds, potty chairs, child-sized toy cupboards or wardrobes and small chairs and tables, which are on the whole scaled-down versions of adult furniture possibly adapted to child use in various ways. […]@en

Herman van Bergeijk schreef een boek over Kropholler waarin hij de architect verdedigt en tracht te ontdoen van het odium van de traditionalistische en conservatieve bouwmeester. Daarin overtuigt hij niet, aldus Otakar Máčel.@en

Case study.@en

Ausst. Kat. Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, 2019/20@en

Objects: Cat.nr.117,(Breuer), p.188-189; cat.nr.118 (Breuer), p.190-191; cat.nr.121 (H.en B.Rasch), p.196-197; cat.nr.127 (Breuer), p.208-209; cat.nr.133 (Stam), p.220-221; cat.nr.135 (Breuer), p.224-225; cat.nr.136 (Herbst)p.226-227; cat.nr.150 (Breuer), p.254-255; cat.nr.158 (Terragni), p.270-271; cat.nr.177 (Breuer) p.293; cat,nr.181 (H. en B.Rasch), p.295; cat. nr.183 (Arndt), p.296; cat. nr.185 (Breuer), p.297; cat.nr.187 ((Herbst), p.298; cat. nr.192 (Aalto), p.300; cat.nr.193 (Lorenz), p.301; cat.nr.194 (Luckhardt), p.301; cat. nr.195 (Mendelsohn), p.302; cat.nr.196 (Breuer), p.302; cat. nr. 197 (Burkhalter),p.303; cat. nr.198 (Pollak), p.303; cat. nr.204 (H.Rasch), p.306; cat. nr.205 (Lengyel), p.307; cat. nr.207 (Lorenz), p.308; cat. nr. 208 (Weil), p.309; cat.nr.210 (Dieckmann), p.310; cat. nr.215 (H.Rasch), p.312; cat. nr.219 (Mertens), p.315; cat.nr.223(Dieckmann),p.317; cat.nr.229 (Giudici), p.321; cat.nr.234 (Luckhardt), p.324. Biographies: p. 864 Aalto p.866 Arndt 874 Burkhalter & Breuer 880 Dieckmann 886 Giudici 889 Herbst 898-899 Lengyel 900 Lorenz & Luckhardt 904 Mendelson 905 Mertens 911 Pollak 914-915 Rasch 923 Stam 927 Terragni 931 Weil @en

Bespreking van het boek 'V=Vorm. Nederlandse vormgeving 1940-1945' geschreven door Yvonne Brentjes.@en