Around 1900, people began to “take children seriously,” Ms. Kinchin said. “Freud introduced the idea of childhood shaping our adult lives,” and designs were produced specifically for children. The show presents 500 of them, including a 1902 highchair designed in the Prairie style by William Eugene Drummond, an architect who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, and a photograph of a 1959 play sculpture in Prague by the Czech artist Zdenek Nemecek, left. Called “Sputnik,” the sculpture “speaks to the way children are identified with exploration and the future,” Ms. Kinchin said.
The show will run through Nov. 5; 11 West 53rd Street (Fifth Avenue). Information: (212) 708-9400 or moma.org.
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