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INTERIORS, FURNITURE, AND PRODUCT DESIGN

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Vitra Design Museum

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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 352 pgs / 260 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 13   

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ISBN 9783945852545 TRADE
List Price: $52.00 CAD $72.00

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VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM

Robots 1:2

R.F. Collection

Edited by Rolf Fehlbaum, Fifo Stricker.

Robots 1:2

Collectible "kinetic sculptures" from bygone visions of the future, in a new compact edition

This compact volume explores the 172 space-themed toys in the R.F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. Largely produced in Japan between 1937 and 1973, these figures of robots (and the occasional astronaut) have been carefully researched and compiled over the years by Rolf Fehlbaum, former Chairman of Vitra and founder of the Vitra Design Museum, who describes them as "small kinetic sculptures of great originality."
Ever since the term's first appearance in Czech writer Karel ?apek's science-fiction play R.U.R. in 1921, robots have both served and taken over the work of humans, creating human dependency and, at times, a shift in the power dynamics of a society. Robots 1:2 shows the toys and their original packaging (where available, as it was seldom preserved) on a scale of 1:2, with the largest robot determining the size of the book. This conveys something of the uncanny nature of the robots and their general ambiguity, while the vivid illustrations on the boxes give an idea of the futuristic fantasies developed over the period. QR codes for some of the robots link to a page with short videos showing them in action.


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