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Design 5

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Beautiful symmetries are even more striking with elegant black and white struts and balls.

In his Allegory of the Cave (Republic), Plato muses on ways to enhance our natural ability to perceive reality. 

Dive into "appearance" vs. "reality." Use Design 5 to build striking shadows as well as the intriguing solid that casts them (the rhombic triacontahedron, discovered by Johannes Kepler). You can build a lots of other beautiful models as well! Designed by our E.U. partners and fellow artists in hiding, Erwin Kotzab and Lyn Taylor, with original typos and quaint translations from German.

Includes 227 parts in a beautiful and stylish puzzle box.

Our Design series line was voted as "Best of NY Toy Fair" by Popular Science in 2013. and selected as one of Forbes' Top Ten Toys for Dads

 

 

 

Struts 170
Nodes 57
Total Parts 227
Nodes
Color Qty
Node 32
Node 25

Nonstandard Parts
  Name Length Description Qty
B "Blue" 0 Black short rectangular black strut 30
B "Blue" 1 Black medium rectangular strut 40
B "Blue" 2 White long rectangular strut 12
R "Red" 1 Black medium pentagonal strut 12
R "Red" 1 White medium pentagonal strut 60
Y "Yellow" 0 White short triangular strut 8
Y "Yellow" 1 White medium triangular strut 8
Instructions Download
Recommended ages 18+
Parts included 227
Dimensions 5.25" x 5.25" x 5.25"
Weight 1 lb.
UPC 709743200554
SKU 0D-DS5-ENG

 

A striking meditation inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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