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Hiromatsu Woodworking Co. | WF Series
Hiromatsu Furniture recently teamed up with designer Yu Watanabe to create the WF series of kids furniture | As if designed by a child, the free-form yet simplistic pieces are sure to inspire creativity in the young and old | Yu Watanabe is an 80-year old retired professor of design who agreed to emerge from retirement to create these beautiful pieces for future generations | Made-to-order and fashioned out of all-natural pine, each piece in the collection is unique | At boobosh we can’t get enough of the bunny chairs | Hiromatsu acknowledge that it takes between 100-200 years for a tree to grow to an age appropriate enough to be used for furniture – and that they sometimes use trees that are 500 years old | As harrowing as this may be, they believe that we need to design and build furniture that can be cherished for lifetimes, instead of furniture that is designed to last a couple of years, only to be replaced | The president of the company offers, “Civilization has enriched our lives but it has also battered out souls” | Hiromatsu Furniture believes it is their duty to heal the soul through their designs | Hiromatsu Furniture has an interesting initiative in which they recycle all of their scraps into these wonderfully tactile SONO Beans, profits of which are donated to the Green Belt Movement | Hiromatsu Furniture is based in Okawa City in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, a city steeped in 450 years of woodworking history. Ookawa is Japan’s furniture central with over 1200 furniture companies claiming the land as their home. Hiromatsu stands out of the mix with their diverse and imaginative designs that continue to change and adapt to modern needs | The solid pine Rabbit chairs come in six different colours inc. a natural finish | Dimensions = W30cm D32cm H52.5cm and SH28cm | Perfect for little legs and bums | You can view and order the full WF collection online at hiromatsu.shop-pro.jp
Fridgeezoo
These little fellas are adorable arctic companions that look like milk carton versions of your favorite animals | They live in the fridge and greet you when you open it | Butif you leave the fridge open too long, your little Fridgeezoo friend will berate you for being an energy waster | See www.fastcompany.com for more info.
Pizzly Bears | Masahiro Minnami Design
The Pizzly rocking bears by Masahiro Minnami Design are a testament of our current global situation | More and more parents are starting to realize the importance of teaching children about our impact on the world and the frailty of its animals and ecosystems | Designer Masahiro Minnami has decided to do so by depicting a polar bear and a grizzly bear on ice, instead of the classic horse, on his daughters rocking toy | Why, you ask? Supposedly, grizzly bears, who are escaping North to beat the heat, have been caught breeding with polar bears that are avoiding the ice melt in the North Pole | This new species, first discovered in 2006, has been named the Pizzly bear | Although most would typically be saddened by this sad state of environmental affairs, Minnami used it as inspiration in his work | Take a closer look at masahiro-minami.com to see more of his creations.
Ring Around a Tree | Tezuka Architects
Ring Around a Tree | Total floor area: 146.98m2 | Constructor: Nichinan-Tekkou | Completion: 2011 | In 2007, the Tezuka Architects designed the Fuji Kindergarten in the western suburbs of Tokyo | Recently, the same architects have added a well welcomed addition to their already beautiful school, a Ring Around A Tree | And not just any tree, but a Japanese Zelkova tree, a favorite for climbing by local children for more than half a century | This epic tree is now at the center of a wonderful new cylindrical wood and glass building that will be used as the ultimate climbing and playing space, a foreign language classroom, a place for kids to hangout while waiting for the school bus and whatever else the teachers can think of.
IdeaPaint | Dry-Erase Wall Paint
The family needs a better place to gather than in front of the TV | IdeaPaint can turn virtually anything you can paint into a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving your family a place to interact, communicate and fully explore your creativity | No matter where you use it, it can keep your family connected | Who knows, it may even help end the battle over the remote control | Transform a child’s bedroom or playroom into a place to explore and express their creativity and imagination | Paint a toy box and make it more entertaining than everything inside of it | Use IdeaPaint to keep track of appointments, chores, shopping lists and all your important dates | IdeaPaint creates the perfect spot for the family to interact and keep up with each other’s busy lives | Choose from eight great colours at www.ideapaint.com
Tate Kids
The Tate Museums make it easy to take your kids out for the day | fully equiped for family visits with changing facilities, cloakrooms, activity ratings, regular family events, free entry for kids under 12 and much more | http://kids.tate.org.uk/
FriendsWithYou | Rainbow City | New York
In celebration of Section 2 of New York City’s High Line, a park built on a former elevated freight railroad, the always excellent FriendsWithYou and AOL have teamed up to present a vibrant collection of air-filled sculptures | The installation will be located at the lot on 30th street in the Chelsea art district in June | Keep updated at FriendsWithYou.com
Clementine Art | Natural Art Supplies
Non-toxic is just not good enough when it comes to making art with kids | When children get the paint or glue in their mouths and/or all over the place, you can’t help but wonder “What’s in that stuff?” | The people behind Clementine Art offer an all natural, affordable solution to this question with every ingredient written on the box | Markers, paint, crayons, glue and molding dough – the whole kit – feature 100% certified natural ingredients and are environmentally friendly | In addition, the company has made products in colours and shapes that facilitate the inspirational process of young hands | The innovative crayon rocks are definitely a boobosh favourite | www.clementineart.com
Théatron Italian Art | Rocking Italian Scooter Deluxe
Forget the horse… What your little one needs is a handmade rocking scooter | The rocking scooter is a one of a kind handmade toy from Turin, Italy | Each scooter is made to order so you can customise most details and colours to your preference | It will take around 60 days to make and you can get one from the always excellent www.etsy.com
Bape | Milo Face Camo Skull Sta Kid Sneakers
A Bathing Ape is known for decorating their clothing with bright colours, a strategy which often does not sit too well with grown ups | However, boobosh thinks these brightly coloured Milo Face sneakers will work pretty well for kids | zozo.jp/shop/bapeland
