Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set break contest Director of the Chicago Symphony

Director of the Chicago Symphony

and an unusual one for the old black and mellow gold paint on it

and the wonderfully branching bare tree an earthy brown

early-ish 20th c I would guess

and this is a great example

Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set break contest Director of the Chicago SymphonyAs is surely clear by now, I love old blocks sets of all sorts, but there is something uniquely satisfying about large sets of unpainted wooden ones like this elegant and elemental and like the pure embodiment of creative possibility. And it is rare that I come across a set with such a complete scope of sizes as this a modular range of rectangles and squares, plus round columns and half spheres and very pointy cones, too. Beautiful. I don't have