Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog and the print was mounted

and the print was mounted to board

filled with drawings of people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things

and one can just imagine all of these specific planes all meeting in the sky of this young boy's mind

definitely Art Deco influenced graphic style in which this goatee-d man is rendered reminds me of the watercolors of Pueblo artist Awa Tsireh from the same period (if you're not familiar

Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog and the print was mountedThese were a happy find the other day at a favorite shop in New Hampshire I've had a couple of rare sets of colored blocks of the same form designed by renowned Swiss carpenter and designer Kurt Naef (19262006) in 1954, but had never seen a set of unpainted wooden ones, though I have since learned that they were produced. No box with these and they are unmarked, but it's quite clear that is what they are, and all signs point to this being a. mid