ABC Vitrines

HOUSE DISPLAY CASES

We’ve integrated four display cases in the ABC house, two on the ground floor and two on the first floor. In them, each trimester, we show new alphabet books, images or objects from the ABC collection that deserve extra attention, our ‘coup de coeurs’ of the moment. In the cases on the ground floor we exhibit creative works of children (made during one of the ABC projects), and remarkably designed toys. In the display cabinets on the first floor we show the A, B & C pages from an old or new alphabet book and inventive projects with paper or special graphic design.

From each of these display cases you can see a picture here, to flavor and inspire.
Click on the image for the reference of the book/ source from which it originates.

2024-01

ABC BOOKS
ABABABC / Elisa Géhin / Les éditions 2024 / Collection 4048 / 2023 / ABC-collection 2023

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
AUTOS en 3D / Pop-up book / Robert Crowther / Paul Harrison / Christophe Rosson / Editions Gründ 2009 / ABC-collection 2024

ABC-COLLECTIE
Unknown artist / ABC-collection 2022

SPEELGOED
“KOBOLD” PERLENPUPPE / Bead Dolls / Pantin Perles
Schowanek / Art.-Nt. 10838 / Made in West Germany / ABC-collection 2022

2023-10

ABC BOOKS
THE ABCs OF ADULTHOOD / An Alphabet of Life Lessons / Deborah Copaken and Randy Polumbo / Chronicle Books / San Francisco / 2016 / ABC Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
GESCHNITTENES PAPIER / Eine Geschichte des Ausschneidens in Europa von 1500 bis heute / Sigrid Metken / Verlag Georg D.W.Callwey, München / 1978 / ABC collection 2023

ABC-COLLECTIE
SELF PORTRAIT ADAM JIBET 9 YEARS / ABC collection 2002

SPEELGOED
ROYAL PET  / A Japanese company called “Senshukai” sold these wooden animals in the late 1960’s.
The collection was called “Royal Pet” and sold one animal at a time by a monthly mail order subscription. These animals were inspired by Danish modern wooden animals (like the teak animal figurines designed by Hans Bolling, Kay Bojesen, etc.) and handcrafted by Japanese “Kokeshi” (traditional Japanese wooden dolls) craftsmen.

2023-02

ABC BOOKS
CONTES ALPHABETIQUES / 26 Images Par Ida Bastin / Textes De Kiwist / Editions Henriquez / 1962 Bruxelles /
ABC – Collection 2021

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
2 LEPERELLOS – JOSEF LADA / Vesele Obrazky / Albatros / 1977 / Pavel Srut / Alena Ladova / 1967 / Rikadla / Albatros / 1961 / Alena Ladova / 1961/
ABC – Collection 2023

ABC-COLLECTIE
RENAISSANCE – PORTRAIT COLLAGE / Woman & Child / Unknown Artist /
ABC – Collection 2009

SPEELGOED
WOODEN ANIMALS / 13 Pieces / Design By Floris Hovers / Iconic Toys.Nl /
ABC – Collection 2022

2022-10

ABC BOOKS
DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE ALFABET / Alex Latimer (Text + Illustrations) / Puffin Books 2012 / 2014 Penguin Books / ABC Collection 2020

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
KÖLYKÖK A KETRECBEN / Sz. Marsak / Rajzolta: L. Majorova / Forditotta: Weöres Sandor / Malis Kiado / Moszkva 1980

ABC-COLLECTIE
Marie-Elise / Painting / February 2022 / ABC 2022 / In loan from the creator

SPEELGOED
ROTA FIAMMENGA / 18 th Century / Toy wheel used by children in Flanders / ABC Collection 2022

2022-02

ABC BOOKS
ABCDEFRUIT & VEGETABLE / 3rd English edition / 2014 /Designed by Hato and you / Printed by Hato Press with soy based inks on recycled paper
using a RISO RP3700 stencil duplicator / Cover design after Bruno Munari’s Abecedario / 1942

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Saul Steinberg / Drawings for the “Children’s Labyrinth” / 10th Triennale of Milan, 1954 / Published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Architecture by Line’ / At Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland / September 25th – November 29th, 2014 / First Edition / Published by Nieves

ABC-COLLECTIE
Flamingo/ Wool, Iron wire , pin / Unknown children artist / ABC collection 2016

SPEELGOED
Three Kokeshi dolls / Wood / Japan / Artisanally handmade and painted during the 1920 – 1950s / Large one : 37,5 cm high and a diameter of 9,5 cm / Medium one : 25 cm high and 6,5 cm in diameter / Smaller one : 24 cm high and 7 cm in diameter / Link 1Link 2

2021-02

ABC BOOKS
ABC / Anne Hemstege / Editions Sarbacane / Paris / 2012 / ABC-collection 2014

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Tanarama Kijkdoos / ABC – collection 1998 / Serie of 4 original cut-outs : Space Travel / Indians / Medieval knights / Circus

ABC-COLLECTIE
Yellow-black-orange striped Paper Tiger / Unknown artist / ABC-collection 2017

SPEELGOED
Bauhaus Building Game / 1924 / Design : Alma Siedhoff-Buscher / 27 x 6,5 x 4 cm / 22 pieces / Naef replica production since 1977 / ABC-collection 2002

2020-02

 

ABC BOOKS
 a b c an alphabet book by Katrien Hendrickx, Mieke Verbijlen, Renilde De Peuter / Lay-out: Rienk Michielsen, Tekst: Koen Sels / Printed at Newgoff, Ghent, in an edition of 700 copies on Condat matt paper / Thanks a million: the little artists of academie Nijlen, Maia, Julian, Eppo, Almamy, Bintou, Ibou, Rienk, Koeni, Charlotte, Tony and Minnie / 2014 ABC Collection

 

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Lizica Codréano avec un chapeau en papier / interprétant les ‘Gymnopédies d’Erik Satie à l’atelier de Brancusi, vers 1922 / ABC – STUDIO BRANCUSI / 2019-2020

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC Collection 2011 / Unknown artist

 

SPEELGOED
AFRICAN SLINGSHOT / Present from Cosima Jentsch / ABC Collection 2019

2019-10

ABC BOOKS
The Alphabet from the Sky / Benedikt Gross & Joey Lee / PRICE STERN SLOAN / NY / Penguin Random House / 2016 / ABC – Collection 2018

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
THE KISS / Constantin Brancusi / Box transformation ABC / 2019
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ABC-COLLECTIE
Severina Blada / School W 192 Saint–Petersburg / Russia / “Beautiful Garden” / ABC – Collection 2002

SPEELGOED
SIURELL TOY / ABC – Collection / 2011
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2019-04

 

ABC BOOKS
Le Zoo de Carton / Louis P. Klein / Editions du Pont Royal / 1963 / 1962 by Lakeisha, Tokyo / ABC – Collection 1998

 

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Mount FUJI / 360° BOOK / Yusuke Oono Seigensha / Eight Edition 2018 / Seigensha Art Publishing / ABC – Collection 2019

 

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
Poes / unknown artist / My big photo activity book / Thames & Hudson / Pascale Estellon / ABC – Collection 2018

 

SPEELGOED
Native American Kachina Doll / Old Style Navajo / Made Hand Carved Wood / Sheridan, Illinois, United States / ABC – Collection 2019

2019-02

ABC BOOKS
ABC Book / in Japanese language Hiragana / Unknow editor / 1970 / 27cm x 21cm / ABC – Collection 2017

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Naum Gabo / Model for Constructed Head no. 3 (Head in a Corner Niche) / 1917 / Cardboard. 61 x 48.5 x 34.5 cm / Collection Annely Juda Fine Art / London / Reconstruction: www.formfalt.com / ABC-Collection 2019

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
Unknown artist / Kamishibai-workshop / ABC – Collection 2016

SPEELGOED
Pirouette doll / Flamenco Toupie en Bois Artisanal Fabriqué en France (toupie-shop.com) / ABC – Collection 2018

2018-10

ABC BOOKS
ABC des GRIMACES / Alessandro Sanna / Les Editions du Ricochet / 2011
ABC di Boccacce / Kite Edizioni / 2010 /ABC – Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
ALLE WERK IS EVEN GOED / S. Ivanov / Geïllustreerd door A. Beslik / Uitgeverij Malysj / 1980 / ABC – Collection / 2004

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
MEN IN BLACK / Harald Thys / ABC- Studio Brussel 2000

SPEELGOED
PINATA / Fishshape in papier-mâché / ‘Hecho in Mexico’ / Oakland 2018 / ABC – Collection  link

2018-05

ABC BOOKS
DAYTIME VISIONS / AN ALPHABET / Isol and Elisa Amado / Enchanted Lion Books / New York / 2016 / ABC – Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
THIS BOOK IS A PLANETARIUM / and other EXTRAORDINARY POP-UP CONTRAPTIONS / Kelli Anderson / Chronicle Books / 2017 / ABC – Collection link

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
LET’S PAINT PORTRAITS / Learning to look at paintings / Isabel and Selina Blasco Castineyra / Ediciones Aldeasa 2004 / ABC – Collection link

SPEELGOED
SPACE HOPPER /‘Amazing Inflatable Riding Ball’/Design : Aquilino Cosani /1968 / Ledragomma / ABC – Collection

2018-02

ABC BOOKS
ABECEDA / A JAZZ-AGE ALPHABET FROM PRAGUE / Karel Teige / 1926 / Redstone Press / London / 2010 / ABC-Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Les Aventures de Baron de Crac / Collection Surprise / Editions Bias-Paris / 1952 / Illustrations de Georges Meunier / ABC – Collection

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
The Pigeon / Burkhard / 11 years / Schwarze, Rote und Menschen wie wir
Von Kindern gemalt und erzählt / Max Burchartz / Prestel-Verlag 1956 / ABC-Collection

SPEELGOED
EENVOUDIG SPEELGOED om zelf uit hout te maken / Stefan Tümpel / Zomer & Keuning – Wageningen / 1974 / ABC – Collection

2017-10

ABC BOOKS
ABC Science Experiments / Harry Milgrom illustrated by Donald Crews / 1970 / The Macmilian Company / 866 Third Avenue. New York. New York 10022 / ABC Collection 2017

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
SNEEUWWITJE / Pop-up book with partly movable scenes / Tekeningen door V. Kubasta / 1960 by ARTIA Prague / voor Jos. LEFEBVRE Uitgever KORTRIJK / ABC Collection 2012

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
4 Wooden Friends / ABC Collection 2017

SPEELGOED
FROEBEL GIFT TWO : SPHERE, CYLINDER and CUBE / The sphere and the cube together represented Knowledge, Beauty and Life. / The sphere predominantly corresponds with the feelings or heart, (affective) and the cube to tought and intellect (cognitive). The cylinder is a transitional form between the other two. / ABC Collection 2017

2017-04

ABC BOOKS
WORK / Il lavora dalla A alla Z / Armin Greder  / 2014 / www.elsedizione.com / ABC – Collection 2017

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Brancusi y Sebastian / Arte y Lenguaje / Editorial Pandora Impresores / 1998 / Printed in Mexico / ABC – Collection / 2016

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
Stegosaurus / 1.3.2017 / Anonymous Artist / 8 years / ABC – Collection / 2017

SPEELGOED
* The Little Endless Column / * Table of Silence / 2 Miniature Replicas of Constantin Brancusi’s Work / Design + Production: minitremu.tumblr.com Manufactured with beech wood. / Painted with water based colors and non toxic varnish. / Made in Targu Mures / Romania / EU /ABC – Collection / 2015

2017-01

ABC BOOKS
ALPHA / British Alphabet Book / Designed by Isabelle Arsenault/ Published in Great Britain by Walker Books Ltd  / ABC – Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Japanese paper doll / shiori ningyo / Kimono dress with Haneri collar, Obiage/obi bustle sash, Obijime cord and Kanzashi in the hair

 

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC-Collection / 2015 / Rebecca / unknown young artist

SPEELGOED
HOPTIMIST / The cheerful, sweet Hoptimists were originally designed by Danish cabinetmaker Hans Gustav Ehrenreich (1917 – 1984) in 1968 and produced until 1974. / In 2009 designer Lotte Steffensen relaunched the Optimist again worldwide.

2016-10

ABC BOOKS
Abécés könyv / Hungarian Alphabet Book / Designed by Anna Kövecses / Self-published and printed with Blurb in 2013 / This book is the result of a very personal project aiming to introduce a little girl to the 44 letters of the Hungarian alphabet. / ABC – Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Swan / Yunitto Origami / Modular Origami: link / Photo: Jacek Halicki

ABC-COLLECTIE
Dress with print pattern / Design: Chaima / ABC – Collection 2015

SPEELGOED
Plastic Bag Chicken / A true icon of recycling creativity / Handcrafted by disadvantaged crafters in the townships near Cape Town, South Africa / ABC Collection 2016

2016-04

ABC BOOKS
Humans and Other Animals / a A to Z in sign language and pictures / by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin / with photographs from the Getty Archive in London / Tate Enterprises Ltd 2015 / Ex Libris ABC

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Créatures Fantastiques / 7 Pop-Up Renversants et Bariolés / Paul Rouillac / Loraine Capelier / Editions du Seuil, 2015 / Seuil Jeunesse / www.seuil.com / Ex Libris ABC

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC – STUDIO 2007 / Unknown artist / ABC – Collection

SPEELGOED
Nurmi der Läufer / Gutes Holzspielzeug / Christof Beck Spielwaren-GmbH / Made in Germany / www.holzspielzeug-beck.de

2015-10

ABC BOOKS
ABC der Tiere / Celestino Piatti /1965 / Artemis / Zürich/2015 / NordSüd Verlag AG / Zürich/Ex Libris ABC

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Vasarely / Mis en volume et interprété par Philippe UG / Editions Les Grandes Personnes / Paris 2014 / Ex Libris ABC

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC – STUDIO 2007 / Unknown artist / ABC – Collection

SPEELGOED
Duckling / 9cm / Design Hans Bolling / Denmark / Handmade and coated with clear, matte teak oil

2015-04

ABC BOOKS
A/Z: L’alphabet du livre-en-main / Motomitsu Maehara / Editions Notari, 2013 / www.editionsnotari.ch

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Ontwerp Jaqueline Ost / Kinderboeken serie / Comment fait-on le café? / Wat is koffie? / 1970

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC studio Dick Bruna / Mechelen 2012

SPEELGOED
WOODEN MONKEY, 1951 / Teak and Limba hard woods / 60 x 47 x 39,5 / Design: KeyBojesenSP

2015-01

ABC BOOKS
Abécédaire / Xavier Deneux / Editions Milan, 2014

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
A book of ghosts / Pam Adams, Ceri Jones / Child’s Play, England, 1974 / Cache-cache fantômes / Pam Adams, Ceri Jones / Didier Jeunesse, Paris, 2014 /Collection Cligne Cligne

ABC-COLLECTIE
unknown child 997

SPEELGOED
FOUR-WAY BLOCKS, 1964 / Bois/Wood / 21 x 21 x3,5 cm / Design: Fredun Shapur

2014-05

ABC BOOKS
Abécédaire de Lucien Laforge / Fac-similé de l’édition publiée en 1924 / La Mercurie 2010 Paris

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Ribambelles / Images découpées de Nathalie Parain / Text and Illustration by Ernest Flammarion / Les Albums du père castor / Flammarion Editeur 1932

ABC-COLLECTIE
COLLAGE (unknown child) / BOZAR 2004 / EXPO ARP

SPEELGOED
Handpuppen für seinen Sohn Felix / Ca. 50 Puppen / 1916 – 1925 / 3 Bastel-Sets nach / Paul Klee / formfalt / Zentrum Paul Klee / Bern // Zündholzschachtelgeist // Breitohrclown // Weisshaariger Eskimo

2014-02

ABC BOOKS
Boek Grieks, 1993

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Liberté, Paul Elouard, Editions de Minuit, 1945 pour texte Flammarion, 2012 pour les illustrations et la conception graphique / ISBN: 978-2-0812-5388-9

ABC-COLLECTIE
Elias 2013

SPEELGOED
ABC Collectie 2012

2013-10

ABC BOOKS
Le Nouvel Abécédaire,Karl Philipp Moritz illustrations de Wolf Erlbruch / traduit d’Allemand par Violette Kubler et Marie-Cécile Baland 2000, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2003, Editions Etre, Paris, pour l’édition française

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
HORIZON, September, 1958, volume I, number 1 Horizon is published every two months by American Horizon, Inc., a subsidary of American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.,551 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N.Y.

ABC-COLLECTIE
Drop-painting – feb.2012 – ABC-studio CC Sint-Niklaas / Anonymous

SPEELGOED
Snail / Poland / Krakow / august 2013 / ABC-collection

2013-05

ABC BOOKS
SEE AND SAY, guarda e parla, regard et parle, mira y hablo, A picture book in four languages / Antonio Frasconi / Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-8675 / 1955 / Printed in the United States of America

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
meisje – ijsje – banaan

ABC-COLLECTIE
Portrait Renaissance / Anonymous BXL 2013 / A3

SPEELGOED
16 animali / jigsaw puzzle / oak wood / screen printed wood box / Enzo Mari / Danese / 1960 / ABC-Collection / 38 x 27 x 5,5 cm

2013-02

ABC BOOKS
SONIA DELAUNAY ALFABETO con une raccolta di filastrocche popolari italiane / L&M Services B.V. The Hague 20100506 / 2010 / Babalibri srl, Milano / ISBN 978-88-8362-228-1

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
CANAL GRANDE guida turistica illustrata / disegni di Lucio Raccanelli / testi di Maurizio Gennarelli / riproduzioni della Zincografia Serenissima di Fiorenzo Fallani – Venezia / stampa BO.BA.DO.MA / Copyright 1968 / 16,5 x 23,5 cm

ABC-COLLECTIE
Pinguin / Anonymous BXL 2011 / 12 x 17 cm

SPEELGOED
Simplex / non toxic paints / Frits van der Vlugt & Herman Steinmeier / V.O.F. Steinmeier & Co / 1960-1970 / made in Holland / ABC-Collection / 20,5 x 29,6 cm

2012-10

ABC BOOKS
JOHN BURNINGHAM’S ABC / Jonathan Cape / Thirty Bedford Square London / First published 1964 / Reprinted 1972 / ISBN 0 224 608339

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
JOYEUX ORIGAMI / Le livre des papillons / Office du Livre Fribourg / 1964 by Tatsuo Miyawaki / Matsuyama, Japan

ABC-COLLECTIE
5 STAR – HOTEL / Anonymous / 2004 / ABC-Collection

SPEELGOED
Simplex / non toxic paints / Frits van der Vlugt & Herman Steinmeier / V.O.F. Steinmeier & Co / 1960-1970 / made in Holland / ABC-Collection / 20,5 x 29,6 cm

2012-03

ABC BOOKS
ABC / Lear Alphabet / Penned & Illustrated by Edward Lear, himself London – Constable Young Books Ltd. First English edition 1965 / Ex Libris ABC-Collection

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Il Carretto / Monografia sul Carretto siciliano con 84 Illustrazioni di cui 28 a colori e 5 trascrizioni musicali Salvatore Lo Presti / S.F. Flaccovio, Editore-Palermo Novembre 1959 / ABC – Collection Incl. 3 carretto paper-models

ABC-COLLECTIE
Portrait of a child / Profile / Anonymous BXL 2000 / ABC – Collection

SPEELGOED
1+1=2 sio school – schule – école / made in Holland ABC-Collection

2012-02

ABC BOOKS
An Alphabet By Peter Blake paul stolper and Coriander Studio / Text Gavin Turk and Mel Gooding / Illustrations Peter Blake

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Que faire avec des PAPIERS Claude Pasquer Photographies de Alain Muriot Librairie Hachette, Paris – 1976 éléphant d’Asie

ABC-COLLECTIE
BORDUURWERK Anoniem / 08.06.1961 – ABC Collection

SPEELGOED
FIRMA CALOZET Catalogus Kartuizersstraat, 40 – Brussel 1 Gesticht in 1874 / 15,5 x 24 cm CUISENAIRE MATERIAAL De sleutel tot het wiskundig denken

2011-10

ABC BOOKS
Brian Wildsmith’s ABC / London, Oxford University Press 1962 / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
PARAFARAGARAMUS / Theatroscope / Gilbert Koull / Editions Rencontre / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC MAIL ART STAGE / Juli 2011 / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

SPEELGOED
WOOD & BRUSH FIGURE / 21 cm / DAVILA 1986 / USA / New Mexico / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

2011-04

ABC BOOKS
L’abécédaire zoométrique / Néjib / Gallimard Jeunesse Giboulées / 2010 / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
LE PETIT TRAIN Album en relief des Editions age d’or / Illustrations 1973 by V. Kubasta / Imprimé en Tchécoslovaquie / Artia, Prague / Ex libris ABC

ABC-COLLECTIE
ABC-studio Brussel 2000 / Labyrinthstation / Monster / Artist unknown / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

SPEELGOED
Je m’amuse tout seul à la maison / Editions Buissonnières / 1983 / l’ours de poche / écrit et illustré par Martin Berthommier / ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

2011-01

ABC BOOKS
An Alphabet, William Nicholson, Gepubliceerd door William Heineman, Londen 1898, ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

PAPIER SCULPTUUR
Animaux à mimer, Collection des Trois Ourses, Alexander Rodtchenko, Varvara Stepnova, Serge Tretiakov, Gepubliceerd door Editions MeMo, Nantes 1926/2010, ex libris ABC-bibliotheek

ABC-COLLECTIE
Kirill, 8 jaar, Klein Kasteeltje, Brussel, 2001

SPEELGOED
žirafa(Giraf), inflatable toy, Libuše Niklová, Tsjechië, 1971