vintage little house on the prairie book set

Noticing how the vinyl stuck to the apartment’s semigloss walls, they also found that the cut shapes could be peeled off and restuck to the surface without the need for any glue or other adhesive.įor fun, they put the sheeting, along with some scissors, in the bathroom. He and his wife, Patricia, were artists in postwar Manhattan, living in a railroad apartment on the Upper West Side when they acquired a roll of vinyl sheeting.

Harry Kislevitz never planned on being a toymaker.

Kandinsky’s artwork, the Kislevitzes’ love of collage art, and the post-World War II invention of plastic sparked the creation of Colorforms. The couple became enchanted - and inspired - by abstract-expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky’s use of bright color and geometric shapes. The Colorforms company was founded by Harry Kislevitz in 1950, when he and his then-wife, Patricia were studying at the Art Students League in New York. No paste.Īdapted from articles published in The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) Februand the Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) May 11, 1998 Vintage Colorforms toy – Barbie 3D Fashion Theater (1972)īarbie gives a fashion show in her 3-Dimensional Colorforms theater with changeable scenery.ĭress-up Barbie and her friends in beautiful Colorforms plastic fashions that stick like magic. Simply press down on the plastic animal shapes… Play while watching TV - or any other time. Vintage Colorforms toy – Captain Kangaroo and His Magic Zoo (1960)Ĭaptain Kangaroo: Hours of fun with the Captain and all his animal friends. The book of Colorforms cut-out designs with a black and white glossy surface cardboard sheet on which to stick the shapes costs around $5. These shapes will stick to any glossy surface with slight hunger pressure and can be stripped off easily and cleanly and used over again. Original style Colorforms vintage play shapes – Reissue in 1977 The plastic designs are flexible, easy to clean and consist of versatile circles, squares, triangles and rectangles in many different sizes and colors. The history of Colorforms: A new toy makes its debut (1952)ĭaily News (New York, New York) December 3, 1952Ī colorful new art toy of hundreds of bright, flat stick-on designs made of Vinylite plastic will give children’s imaginations free rein to create without the mess of paint, crayon or paste.

Vintage little house on the prairie book set