Play - Gessato Design Store https://shop.gessato.com/personal/play/ Contemporary Design Shop, Modern Furniture & Home Accessories Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:20:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Loggos Extra Large Wooden Stacking Game https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-extra-large-wooden-stacking-game/ https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-extra-large-wooden-stacking-game/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:10:24 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=175314 The Loggos Extra Large Wooden Stacking Game is the 75-piece group-scale version of Frechling’s German-made balance game. It includes 70 single blocks and 5 Y-shaped blocks, giving players enough pieces for taller structures, branching forms, sorting activities, group challenges, and repeated tabletop building.

Each piece is made from solid wood with a rubber grip-film surface. There are no magnets. The blocks hold through friction, weight, angle, and careful placement, so the game is easy to start but still demanding as the structures become larger and less predictable.

The Extra Large size is the best choice for shared use. It works well for families, classrooms, studios, waiting areas, therapy rooms, senior-care activities, and any setting where several people may build at once. The larger piece count also gives adults more room for experiments with balance, symmetry, and collaborative construction.

Choose Beech for a clean, single-wood look. Choose Beech + Walnut for more contrast between light and dark wood tones. Both versions include the same 75-piece configuration, cotton storage bag, and idea booklet.

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Loggos Large Wooden Stacking Game https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-large-wooden-stacking-game/ https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-large-wooden-stacking-game/#respond Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:35:41 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=175262 The Loggos Large Wooden Stacking Game is the 33-piece version of Frechling’s German-made balance game. It includes 30 single blocks and 3 Y-shaped blocks, giving players enough pieces to build taller towers, branching forms, arches, figures, and collaborative structures.

Each block is made from solid wood with a rubber grip-film surface. There are no magnets. The pieces hold through friction, weight, angle, and balance, so the game stays simple to start but becomes more interesting as the structures get taller and less predictable.

The Large set is the strongest everyday size in the Loggos family. It offers more building range than the Small and Medium versions without becoming as group-focused as the Extra Large set. Use it for family play, tabletop building, studio breaks, classroom activities, senior-care settings, or as a design gift for people who like hands-on objects.

Choose Beech for a clean, single-wood look. Choose Beech + Walnut for more contrast between light and dark wood tones. Both versions include the same 33-piece configuration, cotton storage bag, and idea booklet.

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Loggos Medium 22-Piece Wooden Stacking Game https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-medium-22-piece-wooden-stacking-game/ https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-medium-22-piece-wooden-stacking-game/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:53:07 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=175219 ]]> The Loggos Medium Wooden Stacking Game is the 22-piece version of Frechling’s German-made balance game. It includes 20 single blocks and 2 Y-shaped blocks, giving players more building range than the Small set while staying compact enough for a coffee table, desk, classroom, or travel bag.

Each block is made from solid wood with a rubber grip-film surface. There are no magnets. The pieces hold through friction, weight, angle, and balance, so the game rewards patience, hand control, and experimentation. Build straight towers, leaning forms, branching structures, small figures, or whatever the pieces allow before gravity wins.

The Medium size is a strong all-around choice for families, design-minded gifts, classrooms, studios, and quiet desk breaks. It works well for solo play, two-person challenges, or small group use. The included Y-shaped blocks add a useful branching element, making this set more flexible than the Small version without taking up as much room as the Large or Extra Large sets.

Choose Beech for a clean, single-wood look. Choose Beech + Walnut for a warmer mix of light and dark wood tones. Both versions include the same 22-piece configuration, cotton storage bag, and idea booklet.

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Loggos Small 10-Piece Wooden Stacking Game https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-small-10-piece-wooden-stacking-game/ https://shop.gessato.com/loggos-small-10-piece-wooden-stacking-game/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:33:35 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=175208 The Loggos Small Wooden Stacking Game is the compact version of Frechling’s German-made balance game. It includes 10 solid wood blocks with grip-film surfaces, packed in a slim transport tube for storage, travel, and gifting.

The game is easy to understand: stack the shaped blocks, test angles, build small towers, or let the structure lean until balance gives way. The blocks hold through friction and placement rather than magnets, so every move depends on hand control, patience, and a feel for weight.

Use the Small set on a desk, coffee table, floor, classroom table, or while traveling. It works for solo play, quiet focus, family challenges, and open-ended building. The format is small enough to take along but still gives enough pieces to create surprising shapes and small structures. Choose Beech for a clean, light-wood set. Choose Beech + Walnut for a warmer mix of light and dark wood tones. Both versions include 10 single blocks and the same grip-film construction.

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Unity Temple – Oak Park, Illinois https://shop.gessato.com/unity-temple-oak-park-illinois/ https://shop.gessato.com/unity-temple-oak-park-illinois/#respond Sun, 03 May 2026 10:49:54 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=172055 A tribute to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important works, this Little Building Co. architectural model kit recreates Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, a landmark of early modern architecture and one of Wright’s most radical public buildings.

Constructed between 1905 and 1908 and dedicated in 1909, Unity Temple broke with the conventions of traditional church design. Instead of a steeple, ornamented masonry, or Gothic references, Wright created a powerful composition of geometric forms using poured-in-place reinforced concrete, a material then more commonly associated with factories and utilitarian structures. The result was austere, monolithic, and unmistakably modern: a building defined by structure, light, space, and material honesty.

The design remains especially significant for the way Wright transformed concrete from a practical, economical material into an architectural language. Its exterior appears quiet and almost fortress-like, while the interior opens into a warm, luminous sanctuary shaped by clerestory windows, amber-toned skylights, and carefully proportioned volumes. Wright’s approach helped shift the focus of architecture from applied decoration to spatial experience, making Unity Temple a key work in the development of modern architecture.

This model kit captures the building’s distinctive massing, layered geometry, and disciplined architectural presence at a 1:250 scale. Designed, developed, and manufactured by Little Building Co. in Australia, the kit reflects the company’s studio-minded approach to architectural models, with carefully researched details, timber components, and clear stage-by-stage assembly diagrams.

Glue is required and not included. Little Building Co. recommends a good-quality PVA wood glue, which dries clear and allows time for careful positioning during assembly.

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National Opera House – Sydney, Australia https://shop.gessato.com/national-opera-house-sydney-australia/ https://shop.gessato.com/national-opera-house-sydney-australia/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 19:06:28 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=172066 A ready-to-assemble architectural model kit of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, one of the most celebrated works of 20th-century architecture.

Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the Sydney Opera House began with an international competition launched by the New South Wales Government in 1956 for a national opera house at Bennelong Point. Utzon’s winning proposal broke sharply from the glass-box modernism of the period. Instead, he imagined a sculptural composition of vaulted shell forms rising from a monumental platform, creating a building that could be seen from every angle and read as part of Sydney Harbour itself.

Completed in 1973, the building remains a defining masterpiece of late modern architecture. Its interlocking roof shells, terraced podium, ceremonial stairs, and waterside setting transformed the idea of a performing arts center into an urban landmark. From an architectural standpoint, the Sydney Opera House is significant not only for its expressive form, but also for the engineering ambition required to realize it. Working with Ove Arup & Partners, Utzon’s design pushed construction and structural technology into new territory, eventually resolving the shell geometry through forms derived from a single sphere.

The result is both a building and a civic symbol: a great urban sculpture set within a remarkable waterscape. The Sydney Opera House was added to Australia’s National Heritage List in 2005 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007.

Made by Little Building Co., this 1:750 scale wooden architectural model kit captures the Opera House’s famous shell-like roof forms, stepped podium, terraces, and harborside presence in miniature. Crafted from American Cherry, Aspen, Birch, MDF, and acrylic, the kit is a detailed tribute to Utzon’s landmark design and a rewarding build for architecture enthusiasts, collectors, and design-minded gift seekers.

The kit includes clear, stage-by-stage assembly diagrams. Glue is required and not supplied; Little Building Co. recommends a good-quality PVA wood glue, which dries clear and allows time to carefully reposition parts during assembly.

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Tate Modern – London https://shop.gessato.com/tate-modern-london/ https://shop.gessato.com/tate-modern-london/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 19:05:04 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=172064 A ready-to-assemble architectural model kit of Tate Modern in London, one of the world’s most important examples of adaptive reuse in contemporary architecture.

Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern tells two architectural stories at once. The original oil-fired power station, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, gave London a monumental brick industrial landmark on the south bank of the Thames. After the building stopped generating electricity in 1981, it stood dormant for years before Tate selected the site for a new museum of modern and contemporary art.

The transformation was led by Herzog & de Meuron, who converted the massive industrial shell into Tate Modern, opened to the public in 2000. Rather than erase the building’s power-station identity, the architects preserved and intensified its scale, material presence, and urban drama. The vast Turbine Hall became a public interior street, while new galleries, circulation routes, and light-filled interventions gave the former industrial structure a new cultural life.

From an architectural standpoint, Tate Modern is significant because it changed how museums could be made. It showed that a major cultural institution did not need to begin with a blank slate or a pristine new object. Instead, architecture could work with an existing structure, drawing strength from its history, mass, and imperfections. The later Blavatnik Building extension, also designed by Herzog & de Meuron, continued this approach with a dynamic brick form rising from the former oil tanks and connecting old and new into one larger museum complex.

Made by Little Building Co., this 1:1200 scale wooden architectural model kit recreates Tate Modern’s distinctive composition, including the long brick power-station volume, central chimney, Turbine Hall, and angular Blavatnik Building. Crafted from Aspen, American Cherry, Black Maple, MDF, and acrylic, the model offers a hands-on way to study a landmark that helped define contemporary museum design, urban regeneration, and the creative reuse of industrial architecture.

The kit includes clear, stage-by-stage assembly diagrams. A small amount of PVA wood glue, a single-edge razor blade, and masking tape are required but not included.

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Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House – Madison, Wisconsin https://shop.gessato.com/herbert-and-katherine-jacobs-house-madison-wisconsin/ https://shop.gessato.com/herbert-and-katherine-jacobs-house-madison-wisconsin/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 19:03:21 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=172063 A ready-to-assemble architectural model kit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House in Madison, Wisconsin, one of the most important domestic designs in modern American architecture.

Also known as Jacobs I, the house was designed for Herbert and Katherine Jacobs as a modest, carefully considered family home. Rather than creating a grand residence for wealthy clients, Wright used the project to refine his vision for a more affordable, distinctly American way of living. The result is widely considered his first Usonian house: a compact, single-story design shaped by efficiency, natural materials, open planning, and a close relationship to the land.

From an architectural standpoint, the Jacobs House is significant because it helped redefine the modern home. Its simple L-shaped plan, low horizontal profile, integrated living spaces, and clear structural logic moved away from traditional domestic layouts. The house brought together ideas that would become central to Wright’s later Usonian work, including human-scaled proportions, warm material expression, and a fluid connection between interior and exterior space. Its open arrangement of living, dining, and kitchen areas also anticipated ideas that would influence postwar American residential design.

Made by Little Building Co., this 1:100 scale wooden architectural model kit captures the home’s disciplined geometry, distinctive L-shaped plan, raised platform, horizontal wall panels, and brickwork details. The model also reflects Wright’s organic approach through cherry timber cladding and a landscape base that emphasizes the house’s relationship to its site.

This kit marks Little Building Co.’s first model of a Frank Lloyd Wright domestic work, making it especially suited to collectors, architecture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in Wright’s residential legacy.

The kit includes clear, stage-by-stage assembly diagrams. Glue is required and not supplied; Little Building Co. recommends a good-quality PVA wood glue, which dries clear and allows time to carefully reposition parts during assembly.

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SC Johnson Headquarters – Racine, Wisconsin https://shop.gessato.com/sc-johnson-headquarters-racine-wisconsin/ https://shop.gessato.com/sc-johnson-headquarters-racine-wisconsin/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 19:01:45 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=172058 A ready-to-assemble architectural model kit of SC Johnson Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, featuring two Frank Lloyd Wright-designed landmarks: the Administration Building, opened in 1939, and the Research Tower, opened in 1950.

Commissioned by H.F. Johnson Jr., the complex is one of Wright’s most important works of corporate architecture. At a time when office buildings were often designed as practical, repetitive containers, Wright created a workplace shaped by light, movement, structure, and material expression. The Administration Building’s low horizontal profile, curved red-brick walls, streamlined forms, and bands of Pyrex glass tubing give it a distinctive presence without relying on traditional windows.

Inside, Wright transformed the office into an organic, almost landscape-like environment. The famous Great Workroom is supported by slender dendriform columns that rise from narrow bases and spread into circular, lily pad-like concrete capitals. These columns, combined with filtered daylight from above, helped create one of the most memorable interiors in modern American architecture.

From an architectural standpoint, SC Johnson Headquarters is significant because it reimagined the corporate workplace as a human-centered environment rather than a conventional office block. Wright’s design brought together engineering ambition, organic form, and a carefully controlled experience of light. The later Research Tower extended these ideas vertically, with floors cantilevered from a central “taproot” core, making the building one of Wright’s most daring structural experiments.

Made by Little Building Co., this 1:500 scale wooden architectural model kit recreates the complex in miniature, combining the Administration Building and Research Tower into one detailed composition. The model highlights the headquarters’ low, sweeping geometry, tower form, layered rooflines, courtyards, and material contrasts.

The kit includes clear, stage-by-stage assembly diagrams. Glue is required and not supplied; Little Building Co. recommends a good-quality PVA wood glue, which dries clear and allows time to carefully reposition parts during assembly.

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The Guggenheim https://shop.gessato.com/the-guggenheim/ https://shop.gessato.com/the-guggenheim/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 18:59:21 +0000 https://shop.gessato.com/?post_type=product&p=172057 A ready-to-assemble architectural model kit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, one of the most recognizable works of 20th-century architecture.

Completed in 1959, the Guggenheim challenged the traditional idea of a museum as a sequence of separate gallery rooms. Wright designed the building as a continuous spatial experience, organized around a spiraling ramp that rises around a central rotunda beneath a skylight. Its sculptural concrete form, horizontal bands, and circular geometry broke from the rectilinear language of Fifth Avenue, giving the museum a presence as memorable as the art it was built to house.

From an architectural standpoint, the Guggenheim is significant because it turns movement into the central design idea. The visitor’s path, the structure, and the exhibition space are fused into one fluid composition. Rather than treating architecture as a neutral backdrop, Wright made the building itself part of the museum experience. It remains a defining example of his organic architecture, combining geometric abstraction with forms inspired by nature.

Now recognized as a National Historic Landmark and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright,” the Guggenheim continues to influence museum design and architectural thinking around the world.

Made by Little Building Co., this 1:500 scale wooden architectural model kit captures the museum’s iconic spiral volume, layered horizontal form, and contrasting rectilinear elements. Designed, developed, and manufactured in Australia, the kit offers a hands-on way to study one of Wright’s late masterpieces in miniature.

The kit includes clear, stage-by-stage assembly diagrams. Glue is required and not supplied; Little Building Co. recommends a good-quality PVA wood glue, which dries clear and allows time to carefully reposition parts during assembly.

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