Bleu Citron was created in 2021 by Clémence and Thomas with the ambition of helping children in their development. They worked on a series of everyday objects to encourage children to reveal their talent. Their first concept is a sweatshirt to decorate with collections of thematic patches!
As often as they wish, children can create a new decor on their clothing by scratching the crests of their choice. The possibilities become endless by combining the collections. To allow children to discover the world while having fun, each thematic collection will be accompanied by educational content prepared in collaboration with education professionals: an audio story, an explanatory leaflet and a pretty poster to decorate the room. The themes explored: places, environments, eras, artistic movements, or even essential subjects such as geometry or the alphabet. Wonderful!
VARBERGSTOPPEN PLAYGROUND SPHERES
Vårbergstoppen playground is a series of spheres for playing, climbing and hiding in a public park in Stockholm. Vårbergstoppen is a constructed hill in the southern suburbs of Stockholm. The artificial landscape was created in the 1960’s using masses from the construction of the new subway lines.
City landscape architect Holger Blom lead the work of creating the two artificial peaks surrounding a perfectly round crater with a diameter of 100 meters. The perfect geometries of the constructed landscape worked as inspiration for work by AndrénFogelström, designing a bird watching tower, viewing platforms, signs, and playground equipment for the public park. As the suburbs of Vårberg and Skärholmen are being densified, the City of Stockholm is developing the landscape into a park with activities for all ages. A new playground is located near the entrance of the park, aimed at children of all ages. A large orange ball has landed in the steep slope of the hill. It appears to be rolling down but is safely anchored to the ground. The perforated metal filters the light from outside during the day, and at night the illuminated interior lets out a soft glow. In the winter it acts as a starting point for the sledding slope, and in summer it works as destination for little climbers of the hill. The younger children in the sandbox can hide in three smaller spheres, made from solid wood and placed at a safe climbing height. One sphere has a slide, another one has a little bench and small holes for peeking out. The wooden spheres are machined from solid pieces of fir using a large CNC router. The inside is painted orange with linseed oil paint, and the outside is treated with linseed oil to withstand the hardships of the Swedish winter. The project is made in collaboration with Land Arkitektur, who has been responsible for the overall landscape architecture of the playground. Amazing!
BOA POUF BY HEM
We totally love the donut-shaped Boa Pouf from Hem collection! This piece of furniture by the Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis is perfectly sculptural, a bold graphic form that interrupts interior landscapes with its funny chunky geometry. It is rounded and soft, encased in a seamless outer layer that gives it an air-brushed finish. Boa Pouf is made for perching on, propping up feet and lounging on!
IL DESIGN DEI PICCOLI EDITED BY L’IPPOCAMPO EDIZIONI
Furnishing a child's bedroom is not an easy task at all: you have to find the right balance between functionality and play, saving space and comfort, safety and originality. Accessories, games and everyday objects that will accompany them from their first steps to adolescence. Let’s discover the amazing book “Il design dei piccoli” by the author and art historian Agata Toromanoff and edited by L’Ippocampo Edizioni.
FITWOOD OF SCANDINAVIA
GALDHØP climbing arch by Fitwood of Scandinavia is a multi-functional kids’ furniture made with pure natural materials. It has been designed to support active play and development of gross motor skills, coordination, balance, and strength. As mentioned, it also has many other functions beyond climbing.
It can be used as a rocker, play fort, baby gym, goal, kids’ table, toy storage or as a side table!
We totally love it!
ATLAS
Atlas textile collections are designed by founder & designer Elle in collaboration with the highly skilled teams of artisans. Their quality products come to sustainable, organic and eco friendly materials including non-toxic, safe dyes suitable for small ones, with minimal wastage. They are designed to follow babies through childhood and they can be used and loved for years to come.
STUDIO HUSKE
Let’s discover Studio Huske 100% silicone vegan leather mats: robust, wipeable, waterproof, multi-functional, multi-stage, beautiful to look at and soft to the touch. They can easily take care of the daily 'messes' that belong to child and babyhood, accompaning children from birth throughout childhood, in and outside the home. These mats not only reduce the production of waste water and microplastics by being wipe-clean and laundry-free, but they reduce food waste too due to their antimicrobial and food-safe properties.
Only one word: amazing!
"INNAMORARSI" BY SOPHIE BURROWS, EDITED BY RIZZOLI
Innamorarsi by Sophie Burrows, a story of loneliness and gazes,is a book of images edited by Rizzoli. The protagonist, above all, is a color, the pastel red, in the everyday city life between two characters.
Red is the color of boy’s hair, red is the color of girl’s coat; she has a red dog and he has a red cat, red is the common thread of a whole story, even the bananas at the supermarket are red, where they will meet and fall in love.
Loneliness shouldn't be so scary, let’s have a look the last page of the book, where we can find out addresses of associations that could help fighting it.
AFK LIVING
AFK Living creates rugs for the family, adapt to a modern lifestyle, be environmentally friendly.
Each piece is unique and made by hand, wonderful works of art. Why we love them? Because they are everydaylife objects, accompanying family life and play, even in children's rooms. Look at the kids’ pieces!
THEO BEBE
Théo Bébé brand was born in 2014 and it the story of three French entrepreneurs. Let’s discover their furniture for babies’ collection made from the highest quality and constructed to stand the test of time. Their environmentally friendly pieces are evolutive and they adapt as the child grows. They are made from natural and biodegradable materials, with a packaging designed to reduce wastage to a minimum. Love it!
CRAEKKER
CRAEKKER bags and backpacks are tailored to children and perfectly adapted to their needs. Details are a top priority for them: wonderful colours and well thought-out shapes. Plus: their bags and backpacks are made out from recycled PET bottles and collected ocean plastic waste (following the Global Recycled standard Certificate). Are you ready to travel?
MILKYWOOD
Milkywood is a collection of wooden toys made for little dreamers, designed and made in Paris. Look at the beautiful dollhouse cut out flat from wooden boards, its pieces shape up through playing and assembling. Milkywood encourages small-scaled local production, reasoned manufacturing and human contact, and promotes the use of natural materials in its journey to creating simple, ethical, timeless and playful pieces.
Good job Eva!
ADADA
Look at ADADA characters: 100% made in France in a workshop located in Brittany. Each piece is unique, sewn and embroidered by hand by passionate craftswomen. These cuddly toys are objects that the child will keep and carry for a very long time, therefore they are made in high quality fabrics OEKO-TEX 100 certified.
We totally love them, but our favourite is Gisel the cat!
1% DESIGN
Discover 1% Design who refuse the standardization of tastes, the diktat of the #instagrammable. They firmly believe each building, each space and each object must remain unique and design should remain authentic. We love their “TABLE D'ARETES JR”, the children's table in beech wood!
ARCHITECT MUM
Look at the ARCHITECT MUM’s pen holder. A minimalist wooden Creative Cube that works beautifully in both children's and adult settings. The Cube is designed to accompany its owner for a lifetime: thanks to its neutral design, it is equally appealing to children and adults of all ages and definitely does not have to move when the children's room becomes a teenager's room. Amazing!
CHIARASTELLA CATTANA
We love the elegant home textiles collection by Chiarastella Cattana, the fabric designer from Venice who matches traditional craftsmanship together with contemporary colours and patterns. Her creations are designed to celebrate any moment with style.
BABEL BRUNE
Rich textures, deep colors, daring choices, a resolutely free bias and freed from all classic codes for objects that create sparkle! Vibrant, Babel Brune objects reflect the inspirations by Art. It is a local and sustainable brand that chose to surround itself with craftsmen from its region, the North of France. Amazing!
COLLEGIEN ZERO WASTE
The French knitwear company Collégien is pleased and proud to announce an important change for 2022: the choice of a zero waste approach, in the creation of new eco-sustainable products. The decision comes at a crucial moment: companies have to take care of the planet and respect the environment. After more than seventy years of history and international success, Collégien's commitment is manifested with the new slogan and the new collection For a clean ocean: socks / slippers made of Seaqual®️ Yarn, a particular yarn of the highest quality , containing 100% post-consumer recycled polyester and 10% plastic recovered from the seas and oceans and then recycled. An ethical and moral duty signed by the French brand to prevent the polluting of the marine environment. Collégien also actively contributes to reducing the global impact of its production chain on natural ecosystems, engaging in massive recycling and certification activities. Among the different models, the French company offers a second life to garments that have defects in material and workmanship, such as tights that are transformed into a collection of soft hair bands. The brand has also developed the range of Earth ecological socks / slippers, knitted with the highest quality recycled cotton yarns, gradually passing to the GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certification for all its textile production, inaugurated with the new line of Juliette socks, personalized with a delicate fretwork.
KATE HOME TOYS
Look at these beautiful handmade soft toys: cute animals made using uniques fabrics.
Katehometoys directly from Ucraina!
ELI BED BY KAS KOPENHAGEN
Kas Kopenhagen originates from the love of children and nature. Let’s have a look at their Eli bed: innovative and timeless design made of solid oak. Its headboards are ergonomically designed and comfortable to lean on when reading a book or surfing on the tablet. The headboards can be removed and the ends can be closed with extra parts and thereby transforming the bed into a daybed. By purchasing new lengths, the junior edition can be expanded as the child grows. Amazing!