Way up in the sky over the town
flew an airplane.
Brrrum flew the plane in the sky.
Brrrum, brrrum-ummmm.
Pitter Patter went the rain down onto the train.
And the train got all wet.
We gave Elsa her own umbrella last week. Since then, this book has been one of her favorites. "Pitter Patter" by Dorothy Baruch, with beautiful pictures by Charles Green Shaw. It's an early, spiral-bound board book — beautifully printed in four spot colors (yellow, blue, the salmon-y red and black. The black is only used for the text, stripes of rain and on the last page for the boy's galoshes and buttons on his raincoat.
There was a copy on abebooks for thirty bucks. And a version bound with another story, "Hiding Places", for half that. (Twice the books at half the price!)
Cute mom on flickr. Wait 'til you see the kid.
photo: jyri
previously: Værdifuld cargo i Cargobike
related (sort of): Copenhagen Girls on Bikes
Same old story: Jean Touitou (owner and designer of A.P.C.) didn't like the options for his daughter's preschool — so he started his own.
Ateliers de la Petite Enfance (A.P.E.) opened in January with 25 students. The student to teacher ratio is about 1 to 6. Tuition is "expensive by French standards" at $16,000 per year. A satellite space around the corner opens this spring as the A.P.E.'s art workshop and mini theater for concerts and plays. A partner at M/M enrolled his own kid and is now working on a "visual toolbox" for the school. Jessica Ogden is a part-time art teacher. The school was designed by A.P.C.'s architect, Laurent Deroo, who installed plywood closet doors that double as a climbing wall, little Aalto chairs and that rad black folding wall thing. The school is Touitou's way to "build something solid that might last longer than fashion."
From W, April 2008: "Even if you grow up to be an accountant, it's better to be surrounded by beautiful furniture than by ugly furniture." / "This is a nursery school, so you can't just put in a concrete floor because it looks good." / "Montessori has kept a lot of shrinks in business."
"...these hand painted alphabet blocks have two square sides and four narrow, rectangular sides." Post Typography, 2004.
(saw 'em on fffound)
An art exhibition for children in a scaled down museum. Installed during Art, Kind Of! in the main gallery at Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden. After the fact: the exhibiton closed in January.
Curator/concept: Jacob Dahlgren
Architecture: Medium
Previously: Medium's work on The Experimental Playground Project
Related: Jacob Dahlgren's The wonderful world of abstraction
Photos: Medium
