'Factory Town' Bauklötze von Ladislav Sutnar Trovelore True to its name

True to its name

ichimatsu check

By turning the shell inside out

now in the collection of the Met Museum

Design: Aoi Yoshizawa for Lapuan Kankurit

'Factory Town' Bauklötze von Ladislav Sutnar Trovelore True to its nameLadislav Sutnar, a Czechoslovak, who was born in Plze in 1897 and died in New York in 1976, was a pioneer of graphic design and shared with his contemporaries of the Bauhaus artistic movement a taste for bright colours and simple geometric shapes. A game designer, in 1921 he created the 'Factory Town', a very pure educational game of blocks that Vilac reissued 100 years later in cooperation with the artist Grard Lo Monaco and the Ladislav Sutnar