{"id":70956,"date":"2017-11-04T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/child-at-heart-inside-toy-designer-tom-karens-fun-filled-home\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T11:03:11","slug":"child-at-heart-inside-toy-designer-tom-karens-fun-filled-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/child-at-heart-inside-toy-designer-tom-karens-fun-filled-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Child at heart: inside toy designer Tom Karen\u2019s fun-filled home"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTwenty years after he retired, the designer behind the Raleigh Chopper and Marble Run is busier than everIn Tom Karen\u2019s Cambridge house, toys, games and sculptures pepper every surface. They drop hints about his long career: from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, Karen was chief designer at Ogle Design, the UK firm responsible for the Raleigh Chopper, the children\u2019s game Marble Run, as well as cars, lorry cabs, crash test dummies, radios and washing machines. He has a Chopper permanently propped up in the front room, and points to its key innovation, the large back wheel: \u201cIt symbolised the power going through the back, like a Formula One car.\u201dAt 91, and 20 years after he officially retired, Karen is still designing, for his own pleasure: bird sculptures, corrugated cardboard trees and games. A garage serves as his workshop and is filled with inventions and works in progress; a drill, bandsaw and sander are lined up on an old table. \u201cI\u2019m happier here than anywhere else,\u201d he says. But the back of the house \u2013 a kitchen, dining room and studio \u2013 is where he spends most of his time. The bright, south-facing space has big windows, a glass door leading out into the long garden, and a side extension with an orange-painted steel ceiling joist. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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