Embrace by John Green is a smart piece of furniture. It naturally forms two low modern tables that are then 'embraced' together in order to form a storage unit / magazine rack / occasional table. It is made in the Baltic region of Europe, each unit is signed, numbered and stamped upon completion. Wow!
MA CABANE À RÊVES
Ma Cabane à Rêves wants to give children fun and educational tools to develop the essential skills that will help them grow. The development of creativity and imagination. With their white magnetic slates children can combine magnets with drawing and writing, creating and recreating all the stories that come to their mind, with no limits. At Ma Cabane à Rêves pay a lot of attention to the combinations of patterns, shapes and colors. We love their products that promote simple, calm and authentic moments of play, which can be done independently or accompanied by a parent for a real moment of learning, exchange and sharing.
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT BY DAM IN SAO JOAO DA MADEIRA
Challenged by the Municipality of São João da Madeira in Portugal, the Designers of the DAM brand were invited to develop the Interior Design project for the School. Located in the place called “Fundo de Vila”, now this Kindergarten and Primary School is a setting for a more flexible traditional teaching mode.
The Designers set out to create functional and creative spaces, to promote the well-being of the school community and provoke new models of teaching and learning in Portugal. They started from the School’s geographical proximity to the “Vouga” railway line. Thus, spaces were created to propose the idea of a train journey to the “Back of the Village”. Wow!
THREAD THE WORD BY SARAH FOOT
Thread The Word was founded by Sarah Foot, after many years of working as a textile artist. She creates bespoke embroidered pieces that are commissioned to be given as special gifts for weddings, christenings, anniversaries and more. Where possible she always tries to use reclaimed fabrics: it can be challenging but it adds an extra layer of history to the finished article, as well as being more sustainable for the planet. Let’s have a look at her wonderful portfolio!
CUCKOO DOLLS
Let’s discover Cuckoo Dolls a selection of fascinating textile dolls of peculiar creatures by Marina Glebova, a talented artist and craftswoman based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
KASPI LAND
Kaspi Land was an idea by Amalfi, during her family trip down to Ecuador in February of 2019 after seeing how talented her relatives down there were, she has to come up with some ideas to help them export their creative and at the same time help them to overcome some economic hardships. It started as a business of wooden based toys for children that foster imagination, learning and are etichally made. Kaspi toys are made with love by talented Ecuadorian hands as they are eco-friendly, natural, bilingual and educational toys that need zero batteries to function, but encourage imaginative, purposeful fun play!
LA PELUCHERIE PARIS
The stuffed animals by La Pelucherie are not simple toys, but works of art designed to become real family members who will accompany children in all stages of their lives.
Each of them is strikingly realistic and meticulously developed. Entirely hand-sewn (without mold), each plush is unique and requires great technical precision (up to 15 hours of work), a thoughtful choice of high-end materials and century-old know-how perfectly mastered by the historical seamstresses of our workshop in Italy.
BARON VENUS
Baron Venus, Steve and Dila, is a contemporary homeware brand, born out of Istanbul, that creates a collection of pieces to be made with love and destined to one day become souvenirs from the past. This family brand’s mission is to make our world with children more vivid, more meaningful and more beautiful. We totally agree, let’s discover it together!
MIXITOY
Mixitoy is founded by the graphic designer Hanne Marie Mortensen who wants to stimulate kids’ imagination and their joy of playing.
Look at Mixitoy construction system for kids made of EVA foam: it is easy to assemble and very durable. This building system consists of boards of different lengths, gables, joints and two variants of roofs. The building boards are gray on one side and cream colored on the other, and the children may reverse the boards and combine the colors as they desire when building. So beautiful!
ET LILLE ATELIER
Et Lille Atelier is a webshop run by the artist Christina Wiboltt Norup. Look at these watercolours creations make from fine, fairly and precise pencil lines. A fun combination of a calm expression together with a huge play of colors to be appreciated by people of all ages. Most of Christina’s inspiration comes from the nature around her and her children. Lovely!
imperfettacomeme
Let’s discover Imperfettacomeme, a creative and unique union between old pottery and jewel creations by Speranza. Look at her handmade jewels starting from fragments of old forgotten dishes. Amazing!
SQR STOOLS BY KONOS
SQR Stools come for square and square underlines in many things. Konos Studio took two basic shapes, square and circle, and creates a simple and beautiful piece of furniture. Let’s discover and love this minimalistic design form to seat on!
BRUNO MUNARI: THE CHILD WITHIN @ CIMA
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present Bruno Munari: The Child Within.
The show will focus on Munari’s children’s books and will demonstrate how his publications expressed his wide-ranging ideas about the possibilities art offered to communicate visually. These books bring together Bruno Munari’s ideas regarding art, design, and pedagogy in an accessible form. It was Munari’s goal to develop a purely visual language that fostered new modes of communication, often without needing words. Munari’s show at CIMA will also feature artist books from other cultures, including Russian revolutionary children’s books that played a role in Munari’s own formation and approach to the genre. Furthermore, the presentation will include artworks and design objects by Munari that share themes — as well as visual and formal connections — with his children’s books.
Photo Credits:
2 Bruno Munari, Il venditore di animali (Animals for Sale) - Merrill C. Berman Collection
3 Bruno Munari, Le macchine di Munari (Munari’s Machines) - Merrill C. Berman Collection
5 Bruno Munari, Torido Mazzotti, Servizio da antipasto (Antipasto Service), - The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
6 Bruno Munari, Fontana a ruota (Wheel Fountain) - Private collection, Courtesy Repetto Gallery
NIDORAMO
Nidoramo wooden games tell the story of the "once upon a time" challenge of the game to persist in the current era, in which everything has the flavor of technology, the digital virtuality.
Their wooden games have a different flavor, of times and places "of the past". Concrete, gentle shapes and eco-sustainable materials that combine to develop sociability and imagination, inspired in part by Montessori pedagogy and the Waldorf school.
Look at thi magic that comes to life in a small laboratory where Francesco and Anna live and work.
ROMBO
Rombo are handmade candles produced in a small workshop in Zurich. Each piece is unique in terms of height and colour. Started as an ongoing experiment around the manufacturing process, craftsmanship and form finding, the candles are now available in small editions. Rombo is a project by Studio Porto and Badesaison. We love it!
ARCHITECTMADE
ARCHITECTMADE, established in 2004 in Denmark, creates crafted, elegant, and simple design products that last. The kind of products you never get bored to look at: created using exceptional craftsmanship alongside three rounds of quality control, made to stand the test of time.
LISA VOISARD
Lisa Voisard is a graphic designer and illustrator, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She merges beautiful images and nature through her work, since 2016. She creates framed illustrations, writes and illustrates educational books about nature, and collaborates with a dozen swiss shops. She uses soothing colors, and her subjects are very graphic and minimal. We love it!
HYSTERIA
HYSTERIA is a Copenhagen based workshop and design studio founded by architect Pil Whitta who creates and gives form with her own hands, making both sculptural and functional objects. Look at her frank and edgy pieces with visible details and a minimalistic expression, amazing!
XMAS GLASS COLLECTION BY LUCKYBOYSUNDAY
Look at the glass ornaments by Luckyboysunday: they are magic and will keep your tree from sprinkling it’s needles.
PUPPY BY MAGIS GOES CHRISTMAS
Created by Eero Aarnio, master of Scandinavian design culture and innovator on the international scene ever since the sixties, Puppy by Magis is a little dog as imagined by the great designer, whose aim was to see through children’s eyes when they draw puppies. A head, a body and legs: essential, rounded shapes that come to life in a friendly, playful, durable and colourful object. Made of polyethylene, and produced using rotational moulding, Puppy comes now in a special version for Christmas 2022 in white and red. Lovely!