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Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
(Ilonka Karasz, games)

Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead


Limited Edition. (Brewster, New York): Design Group International, 1955.

One of 1000 copies. Faux-book designed box, 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.75 inches. Pictorial panels mounted to buckram-covered boards and a flocked applique to the front panel; toggle closure. Very Good with light rubbing and soil to box, especially around the edges. With a folded instruction sheet and all 30 envelopes complete with material samples. Envelopes numbered in blue pencil corresponding with the legend in the base of the box. A rare item with all samples and loose instruction sheet, believed complete.Design Group International was founded and lead by Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981), a multidisciplinary Hungarian-American designer. Known for inventive modernist design which referenced folk traditions, she produced over 180 covers for the New Yorker, in addition to a wide range of designs for textiles and tableware now held in major museum collections. Her interest in the utilitarian aspects of textiles led her to positions with companies like DuPont, working on rayon fabrics for cars and airplanes. An obscure but prolific and consequential woman designer of the twentieth century.