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In 1958, our mother, Amelia Robin (a highly regarded designer of party centerpieces for Hollywood studios, starting with Disney) invented a new kind of holiday decoration: life-size, 3-D paper sculptures that could be assembled at home without scissors, staples, or glue.
The first kit debuted in Everywoman’s Family Circle Magazine and sold out in weeks. For the next 20 years, her kits were everywhere in America: women’s magazines, classrooms, libraries, and family homes-at one point, you could even buy them in supermarket checkout aisles.
Always ahead of her time, in the 1980s, Amelia turned her attention to other projects. She became the first Artist-In-Residence at the Gardner Museum in Boston and was granted the right to paint in the courtyard. A collaboration with well-known photographer Al Fisher combined portraiture with 3-D paper masks. Her kits gradually became a cherished memory.
Until recently. We’re going to manufacture an identical kit, using the original as our guide. It will comprise three sheets of sturdy card stock, with all the pieces numbered and ready to be punched out and assembled.
We’re also going to provide both the original printed instructions, as well as a link to a step-by-step video. Assembling a Santa takes about one hour - and when Christmas is over, you can easily take it apart and store it. And once we’ve completed delivery this November, we'll ask our backers what kit we should issue next.
We’re super excited about bringing this wonderful 1960 retro-ho-ho-ho Amelia Robin Santa back to life. Pledge now so we can reach our goal.
A few months ago, we stumbled across an unused kit on eBay. It was in perfect
condition, and there were a lot of bids. And that got us thinking: “We could reissue her work to a new generation. One that appreciates the uniqueness of her designs and their timeless vintage elegance.”
The amazing thing is that we have the entire collection of paper kits-every single different design our mother ever made. We found them all when she passed, carefully preserved and neatly stacked on shelves down in the basement of her home.
What a find!
And for people who grew up assembling the kits around the kitchen table and remember them as a cherished part of their childhood, a real treasure.
So we made a decision: let’s do this! Let’s reissue the whole set. And what better place to start than with this 5-foot-tall paper Santa-just in time for Christmas?
This Santa is from 1960. That year she sold 94,000 kits - at a time when people paid with postal money orders, waited weeks for delivery, and gathered the family around the kitchen table to assemble it.