100 Objects from Century of the Child

Eero Aarnio. Puppy, from the Me Too collection. 2005 The Me Too collection, launched in 2004 by the Italian domestic-design company Magis, includes Aarnio’s Puppy, an abstract plastic bubble-dog sculpture/toy/seat that retains the fanciful flexibility of the designer’s Pony (1973). According to Eugenio Perazza, the company’s owner, Me Too was named for “the voice of children demanding, insisting to have their own objects, their own furniture that correspond to their own world.” For this line Magis rejected scaled-down adult furnishings and instead sought, in consultation with a developmental psychologist, new forms from designers who were “able to think with the mind of a child.” Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Eero Aarnio. Puppy, from the Me Too collection. 2005

The Me Too collection, launched in 2004 by the Italian domestic-design company Magis, includes Aarnio’s Puppy, an abstract plastic bubble-dog sculpture/toy/seat that retains the fanciful flexibility of the designer’s Pony (1973). According to Eugenio Perazza, the company’s owner, Me Too was named for “the voice of children demanding, insisting to have their own objects, their own furniture that correspond to their own world.” For this line Magis rejected scaled-down adult furnishings and instead sought, in consultation with a developmental psychologist, new forms from designers who were “able to think with the mind of a child.”

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

08/27/12
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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

To find out more about Century of the Child visit MoMA.org/centuryofthechild.

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