Magis Me Too-Puppy- by designer Eero Aarnio

Eero Aarnio does it again! Kid's Sit-On Abstract Plastic Dog. Magis Puppy by Eero Aarnio is quite the iconic and irresistible. Material: rotational-moulded polyethylene. A great indoor or outdoor toy. Comes in 4 sizes and 4 colors.

 

 

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Small: 13.6" H x 16.7" L Medium: 17.7" H x 22.3" L Large: 21.9" H x 27.4" L Extra Large: 31.7" H x 40.4" L

Eero Aarnio

Biography Born 1932 in Helsinki, Finland Student of interior and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts in Helsinki 1954-57 Married Pirkko Attila 1956 Children Marja-Leena 1959 and Rea 1961 Designer at Asko Oy 1960-62 in Lahti, Finland Own design office from 1962 in Helsinki, Finland Eero Aarnio Design Studio GmbH 1978-82 in Cologne, Germany Design Studio in Tapiola, Finland 1982 Eero Aarnio T:mi, Veikkola, Finland 1992 Aarnio Design Ltd., Veikkola, Finland 2001 Awards Valmet Trade Mark Competition in Helsinki, Finland 1958, 1. prize International Furniture Competition in Cantu, Italy 1959, 3.prize International Competition on Furniture and Design in Cantu, Italy 1964, 1. prize Scandinavian Park and Street Competition in Stockholm, Sweden 1965, 1. prize Steel Furniture Competition in Helsinki, Finland 1967, 2. prize Export Furniture Competition in Helsinki, Finland 1963, 3.prize International Design Award of the A.I.D. (American Institute of Interior Designers) For Gyro (Pastil Chair) in New York, U.S.A. 1968 Honorary member of SIO (Finnish Association of Interior Designers) 1999 Represented in museums The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany Galerie für Avantgarde Kunst, Cologne,Germany Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Germany Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Designmuseum, Helsinki, Finland The Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A. The Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, Le Mus ée du Chateau Dufresne, Montreal, Canada Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany Eero Aarnio Exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland 2003 Eero Aarnio Exhibition at Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway 2004 Magis History Magis is the brand that has given a novel twist to domestic design, building its identity on incorporating leading edge technology into mass production. Founded in 1976 in the bustling north eastern corner of Italy by a newcomer to the furniture business, Eugenio Perazza, Magis is today a giant international design laboratory that constantly puts itself to the test, seeking technological sophistication and employing a highly diversified workforce. Magis seizes the day. It embraces the creativity of leading global designers (Richard Sapper, Jasper Morrison, Stefano Giovannoni, Marc Newson, James Irvine, Konstantin Grcic, Ron Arad, the Bouroullecs and many others) and channels it towards objects perched on the cutting edge. The company even earned kudos from the trendsetter's bible, Wallpaper, which placed Perazza on top of its list of "Ten who will change the way we live". Magis is 30 years old. Until a short while ago Magis was one of the few companies that manufactured objects in plastic. Today the number has increased considerably. Still, Magis uses the most advanced molding technologies and techniques; it was the first company in the world to apply air molding to aesthetical goods. Plastic will remain Magis' reference material, although it is now experimenting with others such as die-cast aluminum, aluminum metal sheet and wood. Magis is a company in perfect health because it has good projects to develop as well as good intellectual capital, which is the distinguishing feature of the company. Excellent designers, a good design team and an extraordinary supply chain. Magis is characterized by the multiplicity of its expressive languages, its search for a deep meaning of the project, and its ethics instead of aesthetics. Magis takes three/four years to turn the idea of a project into a finished product. Magis faces projects, both difficult and complex, taking high risks. Projects are completed as long as they are supported by a high spirit of experimentation and elevated technical cleverness. Magis works with very well-known designers, but it has always been open to work with young designers, even at the outset of their careers. Jean-Marie Massaud and Jerszy Seymour made their debut on the design scene thanks to the opportunities Magis gave them. Now Magis discovers new passions and punctually chases former design glories, adding them to the mix. There was the interlude with Charlotte Perriand, and new design chapters are being written with Robin Day, a genius of English design, Eero Aarnio, a genius of Finnish design and Pierre Paulin, a genius of French design. It is the price to pay for success. To reduce the possibility to be copied the entrance barrier needs to be elevated greatly. One will have to do complex projects with inventive loftiness and considerable engineering investments, and make moulds and equipment with high technical performance (technique is the ability of a company to make technology work). A qualitative distribution should too play an important role against copies selecting design-oriented companies and keeping me-too-oriented ones out.