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Learning Materials Workshop introduces ART & PLAY, a new collection of architectural building sets created for children and design-loving adults.

The company was founded in 1979 by Karen Hewitt, an artist, early childhood educator, toy historian, and college lecturer in art education. Her innovative block designs have won national recognition and have proven to be a favorite material for children, teachers, and parents in the United States and Worldwide.

The impulse to construct, to take apart, and to build again is universal among young children. Learning Materials Workshop supports this active approach to learning with a series of high-quality block sets that invite children to explore, to invent, to represent, to redesign, and to test their theories about their physical and social world, and the world of their imagination.
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TINTE
 
An Art and Play Object
(On and Off the Wall)

TINTE is a set of notched hardwood building blocks, painted in 42 different colors.

The blocks can be rearranged in endless ways to form, two-dimensional, changeable patterns or, the blocks can be removed and used as a unique building toy creating a never-ending variety of richly colored three-dimensional architectural forms and structures. An explanatory ...


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... booklet introduces the builder to color theory and the basic attributes of color - hue, value and intensity. TINTE's combination of color and natural wood blocks provide an experience of art and play for creative builders and designers of all ages.

The 42 blocks are housed and displayed in a high quality, hardwood frame [21 " x 13 " x 1½"] with a Plexiglass sliding cover that can be hung on the wall as a work of art.

The MSRP for TINTE is $189.99.


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Dwellings 1
Color and Forms Blocks
Building with Light, Color, and Shadow

Four, jewel-like transparent, acrylic prisms are housed in a natural hardwood tray with a series of color optical filters and reflective mylar squares. The opportunities for experimenting with color mixing and constructing brilliantly colored architectural and sculptural forms are endless.

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Imagine the possibilities.

Includes:
4 acrylic prisms
6 optical filters (2 red, 2 yellow, 2 blue)
2 reflective mylar squares
1 wood tray - ¾” x 2 ½” x 2 ½”
1 suggestion booklet

(package size – 3” x 2 ½”x 2 ½”)
MSRP: $19.99


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Dr. Toy Award - Best Picks 2009

A classic, open ended building toy has a new twist. Building with vibrantly colored, wood cylinders, cubes, and triangular prism blocks and little wood trays, builders of all ages can create an infinite number of abstract and representational structures and play with the connections between color and form. The design was inspired by a survey conducted at the Bauhaus by the artist and teacher, Wassily Kandinsky, on the relationship between basic forms and primary colors

Designed by Karen Hewitt for the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA] Design Stores in conjunction with the Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity exhibition.

Includes:
9 hardwood blocks in 3 primary colors
9 small hardwood trays
1 hardwood tray/container
Descriptive booklet


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 CONTACT INFORMATION:
LEARNING MATERIALS WORKSHOP
274 North Winooski Ave
Burlington, VT 05401
Ph: 802-862-8399
Alt Phone: 800-693-7164
http://www.learningmaterialswork.com
info@learningmaterialswork.com
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