What exactly does one do with New York City in a Bag? We have a million little games and toys tucked away into a million little corners of our home. And by tucked we dont mean artfully displayed; we mean hiding under the bed, in the last shoebox that remains unpacked from our moving two years ago, at the bottom of our work bag.
Last night we got a wild hair and rounded up every last little object and dumped the spoils out on the living room floor, hoping to cull some inspiration for our mantle, windowsill, bookshelf or coffee table. What we found were a lot of toys, party favors, witty gifts from work acquaintances and the like.
Heres some of what we found, and we want to know what other similarly whimsical items you think deserve consideration for a place of pride out in the open.
• New York City in a Bag, MUJI at MoMa (pictured above)
• Maharam Memory, A4 Studio
And you?
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my 6 year old hated the city in a bag due to the fact it is supposed to be NYC and there is a contrasting, super colorful "Country in a Bag" by the same designer. She thinks the person had never been to NYC because the city, particularly the area where MOMA is, is very colorful, even compared to the country. We had a good discussion about this (why people think cities are colorless and why the designer chose to make NYC colorless).
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Someday I will find my adornment game of choice again. I saw it in a gallery and it was thousands of dollars, but someone had cast a full phenomenally gorgeous bronze chess set and all the pieces were 3-5 inch high incredibly accurate tiny dinosaurs. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen and I will have to find the artist because it is just unbelieveable to look at. Oh and the chessboard was marble and also ridiculously beautiful.
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I think it's an interesting conversation for a kid to initiate about that NYC in a bag.
Actually, I think that they probably may mean for that one to more of a souvenir for adults, and probably think there's something more elegant about the spareness of less color. I've not seen Country in Bag, so I can't compare what the difference might be, but there's definitely some marketing decisions being made on assumptions or presumptions, depending on one's perspective.
I would have an easier time finding a place in my home for something monochromatic.
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Muji sold (sell?) a series of these. I have one somewhere given as the free gift at the open evening at their King's Road shop last summer. Tokyo, I think. (I'd have loved NYC.)
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