2009 July | Inhabitots

Station One Chair by Make Believe Company

by Jennifer Chait, 07/03/09

The sturdy and stylish Station One Chair is the perfect pint-sized chair for tots to stack blocks on, climb on, hold court at a tea party, or of course sit on with a favorite book. Designed for both fun and function, the Station One Chair features an open space under the seat that doubles as storage for books — or it may become a tunnel for toy cars and trains, or even serve as an imaginative cave for stuffed animals. Made by Make Believe Company from reclaimed clear vertical grain Doug Fir 2×4′s and finished with a non-toxic, hand rubbed satin finish, the Station One Chair‘s simplicity makes it an instant heirloom piece. With a low seat height of 7 inches off the ground, this chair is even suitable for very young, tumbling tots of one year or older.

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DIY: Free Downloadable Paper Foldables by Bryan Green

by Jasmin Malik Chua, 07/02/09

For DIY fun on the fly, you can’t beat Bryan Green’s free downloadable papercraft toys, which include a kitty with its head in a cone, a necktie-wearing sheep, and a bull pinata that can be filled with real candy. Assembling this three-dimensional cast of quirky characters couldn’t be easier: Simply print, cut, fold, tape, and voila, you have a great rainy day project for only the cost of recycled printer paper and ink.

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Get Rockin’ with Knú’s Eco-friendly Red Ball Rocker

by Jennifer Chait, 07/02/09

Our affinity for Knú products began with their stylish line of pint-sized sustainable tables and chairs, and now that they’ve brought back the rockin’ Red Ball Rocker there’s even more to love. The Red Ball Rocker is a reproduction of an original 1964 design by Gloria Caranica. Knú‘s fresh, eco-friendly spinoff of the red ball design makes theirs the perfect mod rocker for stylish green kiddos.

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Mini Modernist Bauhaus Models for Design Savvy Families

by Abigail Doan, 07/02/09

Whether or not you subscribe to the notion that the Bauhaus school is the cornerstone of all great Modernist design, you might very well become a convert when you behold these lilliputian renditions created as a promotional showcase for the New Zealand based paint company, Renese. Crafted by Auckland sculptor Gidon Bing and styled by Katie Lockhart, we love that these design-savvy ‘dollhouses’ meld haute craft, architecture, and an eco friendly color palette with a clever wink to the Bauhaus of yore sensibility.

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Patriotic gDiapers for July 4th!

Your baby can proudly don the red, white and blue this Independence Day with the latest addition to the eco-friendly gDiapers collection: patriotic glory g little gPants! gDiapers are on a design roll this season with their delightful summer-friendly girly girl ruffle gPant, their glam black gPants for baby sophisticates… and they’ve just introduced two new gPants — the fresh summer waters blue go fish blue little gPants and the limited edition patriotic glory g little gPants, just in time for the 4th of July!

Bo Ekström’s Fold-Down Nathi Changing Table Saves Space, Backs

Urban dwellers living in cramped quarters will appreciate Swedish designer Bo Ekström’s Nathi changing table, made from Forestry Stewardship Council certified birch and finished with non-toxic, water-based lacquer. Mountable to your wall at any height, where it folds open or shut with one hand, the contoured bent-plywood changing table saves not only space, but also your back. In addition to two built-in shelves for storing the preponderance of baby-related essentials (diaper cream, baby wipes, massage oil, baby lotion), the changing table also includes a machine-washable cotton pad in your choice of mossy green or ivory.

Uroko House Book Igloo is a Book Lover’s Dream Bed

If you’re a bibliophile like me, you may have fallen asleep amidst a pile of your favorite books as a youngster too. I would have loved nestling into the Uroko House book igloo with all of my treasured fairy tales. Dreamed up by Point Architects, the cozy enclosure that surrounds a child’s bed is also a storage-filled bookshelf. Now your little ones can nod off to dreamland surrounded by their beloved bedtime stories.