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Stricker Fifo - Robots 1:2 R. F. Collection - Paperback
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Description: The catalogue of a unique collection Robots 1:2 presents the space - themed toys in the R. F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. " Small kinetic sculptures of great originality": that is how Rolf Fehlbaum Chairman Emeritus of Vitra and founder of the Vitra Design Museum describes the objects in his collection. In many years of careful research he compiled a rare Wunderkammer of toy robots made mainly in Japan between 1937 and 1973. The term robot was coined in 1921 by Czech writer Karel Capek in his play R. U. R. which foreshadowed some of the impact robots have had on human lives from relieving us of hard dangerous or unpleasant tasks to taking over our jobs from small everyday dependencies to shifts in social power dynamics. While the large - format predecessor to this book presented the exhibits in their original size Robots 1:2 shows the space toys on a 1:2 scale. The largest robot determines the size of the book: this conveys a sense of the uncanny ambivalence that clings to even the most playful representatives of their kind. The fantastic pictures on the original packaging often displayed alongside the figurines vividly illustrate an image of the future that by this time is itself part of our past. QR codes give access to short films showing a number of robots in action. The R. F. Robot Collection housed in the Wunderkammer on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein Germany can be visited as part of a guided tour. For more information please go to www. design - museum. de.
Title: Robots 1:2 R. F. Collection
Author(s): Stricker Fifo
Publisher: Vitra Design Museum
Barcode: 9783945852545
Pages: 276 Pages, 276 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 1/3/2023
Category: Industrial / Commercial Art & Design
Description: The catalogue of a unique collection Robots 1:2 presents the space - themed toys in the R. F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. " Small kinetic sculptures of great originality": that is how Rolf Fehlbaum Chairman Emeritus of Vitra and founder of the Vitra Design Museum describes the objects in his collection. In many years of careful research he compiled a rare Wunderkammer of toy robots made mainly in Japan between 1937 and 1973. The term robot was coined in 1921 by Czech writer Karel Capek in his play R. U. R. which foreshadowed some of the impact robots have had on human lives from relieving us of hard dangerous or unpleasant tasks to taking over our jobs from small everyday dependencies to shifts in social power dynamics. While the large - format predecessor to this book presented the exhibits in their original size Robots 1:2 shows the space toys on a 1:2 scale. The largest robot determines the size of the book: this conveys a sense of the uncanny ambivalence that clings to even the most playful representatives of their kind. The fantastic pictures on the original packaging often displayed alongside the figurines vividly illustrate an image of the future that by this time is itself part of our past. QR codes give access to short films showing a number of robots in action. The R. F. Robot Collection housed in the Wunderkammer on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein Germany can be visited as part of a guided tour. For more information please go to www. design - museum. de.
Title: Robots 1:2 R. F. Collection
Author(s): Stricker Fifo
Publisher: Vitra Design Museum
Barcode: 9783945852545
Pages: 276 Pages, 276 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 1/3/2023
Category: Industrial / Commercial Art & Design
