Giro Giro Tondo Exhibition at the Triennale Museum

Posted on 14/04/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Giro Giro Tondo Exhibition at the Triennale Museum

We, at Mimi Berlin, came to know about the Giro Giro Tondo “design for children” exhibition, at the Triennale museum, which was part of the Milan Design Week during Salone del Mobile 2017, via the local newspaper Het Parool. We didn’t attend the Design Week this year because we missed our flight. This week we will be posting about venues, designs and other places we feel we really missed out on. Giro Giro Tondo Exhibition at the Triennale Museum “The opening is an Ouverture, devoted to play design with a powerful figurative component and a pop spirit.” For us this image is love at first site! (image from the local newspaper.) This we must see in real life! Must!

“A new history of Italian design, devoted to the world of children and to the design and architecture that has been created for them. It includes the games and images that have amused and informed them, the spaces within which they took their first steps, and the objects they used to discover the world.” triennale.org

Fortunately for us this exhibition runs through February 2018. (Concept and Direction:
Silvana Annicchiarico. Exhibition Design and Art Direction: Stefano Giovannoni with Tian Jin. Graphic Design: Giorgio Camuffo with CamuffoLab.

Nice, random, read on the Milan Designweek: dailymail.co.uk

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Working Title: Toys For Girls by Mimi Berlin

Posted on 16/03/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Working Title Toys For Girls by Mimi Berlin

Sketches for new work. Statuettes which you can actually play with! Made with found and collectable objects of plastic, glass, rubber and brass,

See more unique (on of a kind) objects by Mimi Berlin HERE at the mimimall.me

Fabulous People Playing Backgammon

Posted on 15/09/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Fabulous People Playing Backgammon

Tina Turner on the cover of the September 1979 Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine

CONNIE STEVENS, an avid backgammon player on the cover of the June 1979 Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine.

LIBERACE on the cover of the March 1980 Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine.

03 Jun 1980, California, USA — Jermaine and Hazel Jackson Playing Backgammon — Image by © Neal Preston/CORBIS

MADONNA playing backgammon against a dog in a Versace ad photographed by Steven Meisel in 1995

American Celebrities posing, smiling and “playing” backgammon in the previous century…..(images via chicagopoint)

More games on this Blog HERE

Pioneers of Play Art

Posted on 10/08/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Pioneers of Play Art

Alexander Calder, Circus

Jean Tingely

Patrick Rylands, Playplax 1966

Lygia Clark

Isamu Nocochi

Alice Hutchins

Richard Zawits, Tangle

Mark di Suvero

Victor Vasarely

Ward Fleming, pin screen 1976

Wallace Walker 1971

Peer Clahsen, Cella 1979

Pol Bury

Xavier de Clippeleir, Ellipso, 1983

We never heard of the term Play Art, but last week we found a site (the only one actually) which categorized art from the past 20th and 21st century with this term. According to Ernst Lurker of Playart.org it all started with Duchamp‘s Bicycle Wheel in 1903. The latest work on his site is by Lygia Clark made in 2013 (see image above) After seeing the art categorized by Ernst Lurker under “Play Art” we thought an exhibition on “Play Art” is a nice way for people who don’t like or “understand” art ’cause it should trigger you inner, curious, child. Mr Lurker of Playart.org already has a concept for a museum…. Continue reading →

Dollhouses by Architects

Posted on 07/12/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

As you all know Mimi Berlin is found of dollhouses, (we even once created our own dream-houses) you can imagine our happiness when we stumbled upon these seriously designed dollhouses. We posted our favorite four out of a series of twenty houses, designed by famous architects.