MoMa Earnes House of Cards

by MoMA

Product Features

• Designed by Charles and Ray Eames
• Each card depicts a different familiar object from the animal, mineral, or vegetable kingdoms
• Six slots on each card interlock for building the house of your dreams
• Contains 54 cards, each approximately 3.6 x 2.4 inches
• Recommended for ages 5 and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.7 x 0.8 x 2.4 inches ; 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0013TT7NS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,421 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

Each card depicts a different familiar object from the animal, mineral, or vegetable kingdoms. Six slots on each card interlock for building the house of cards of your dreams. Includes 54 standard sized cards.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, unique, all around way cool gift for anyone!, January 4, 2011

By 

Janan Hutcherson "Cookie Mama" (Republic, MO) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: MoMa Earnes House of Cards (Toy)

I have known about these since I was a kid... (turned 50 this year, yikes) and they still impress me! Any appreciator of creativity, versatility, great colorful photography, and no TV play will love these. Quite the 'almost any age' gift as well. I'd say for age 6 and up. I originally put them in my son's stocking one year. They didn't get much attention at the time but my teenage daughter recently rediscovered them and she and my husband had fun 'building' together with them. They can be a one or multiple person activity. Fun isn't so much the way I would describe them as much as cool and original. Safe to give as a unique gift to almost anyone. And can't say enough about the cool pics!!! I am a serious fan of 'vintage' so they get a lot of mileage with me;) They originally came out in 1952. The images are of what the designers called "good stuff", chosen to celebrate "familiar and nostalgic objects from the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms." The six slots on each card enable the player to interlock the cards so as to build structures of myriad shapes and sizes.

The cards creators; Charles and Ray (female and wife/work partner) Eames (pronounced i'mz) are considered among the most important American designers of this past century. They spent their time creating and inspiring many of the great pieces of architecture, furniture, film and graphic design that we see today. [Not sure why they are called 'MoMa Earnes'. They are definitely the ones by Charles and Ray Eames as the description notes]

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging Fun ~ Great Photography too, December 29, 2011

By 

Linda Prime (Seattle WA = thereabouts) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: MoMa Earnes House of Cards (Toy)

I had a set of these cards as a kid, and SO happy to have another set, 50 years later!

The photography on the cards is great and lets my imagination run, again.
Being able to put structures together has always been great fun, and a challenge to the mind.
Love the cards!!