Friday Photo: At MoMA, Avant-Garde Playtime

A child’s wheelbarrow designed in 1923 by Gerrit Rietveld and manufactured in 1958 by Gerard van de Groenekan. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/PICTORIGHT, Amsterdam

From this Gerrit Rietveld wheelbarrow to Yves Behar’s XO laptop, designing for kids is not simply a matter of scaling down stuff aimed at adults. The global awakening to this reality—and the resulting explosion of architecture, objects, and books for the younger set—is the focus of a must-see exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

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