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Posts tagged “babies & children”

Alexander Girard Alphabet Blocks

For fans of textile design and typography (and modern-minded parents seeking to subtly impart some design wisdom to their kids), House Industries has collaborated with the estate of Alexander Girard...

Kalon Studios

(Welcome to Jan, one of the finalists in our Blogger search. She's writing from Vancouver, B.C. Comment away!) To all AT:SF Blogger Tryout posts One can't go wrong with design for a sustainable cu...

Smart's non-PVC Shower Curtains

Clean, green, fun. We recently blogged about the toxic nature of your run-of-the-mill PVC shower curtain. If you use a shower curtain and retain any fondness for your Schoolhouse Rock days, the pro...

Asplund Air Bench

The Air Bench from Swedish Collective Asplund (designed by Thomas Sandell), has been unavailable in the US for several years, but we just came across a new version, in metal, that can be purchased thr...

Modern-twist: Designer

It's a rare housewares designer who can really call themselves an inventor, but Kat Nouri and her collaborators at SF's Modern-twist deserve that moniker. The company's small housewares line is so fa...

Good Questions: Maps, Dots, and Dinosaurs, Oh My!

Hi AT, Any ideas on how to use a large world map in my toddler daughter's bedroom? My kids have been sharing a room (above) but I am going to move my daughter to her own room, which currently has a...

The PKolino Klick

When we were kids we liked to do our homework sprawled on the floor. Our parents made a valiant attempt to get us to sit at a desk but we would have none of it. Maybe a PKolino Klick would've done ...

Flickr Finds: Brooklyn's Chocolate Paradise

Laguna1995 posted these photos of her daughter's room (we hope we're correct in guessing that her name is Brooklyn?) on flickr, and tagged them with apartmenttherapysanfrancisco. We love the contras...

Top Ten: Modern Nursery Resources:

Culled from chatter and reviews on all four AT sites this month, here's a roundup of the top ten local (Bay Area and PNW) and online resources for modern nursery design. As always, add resources and...

Nursery Show and Tell: Otis' Hipster Room

Yet another fab nursery for Nursery Show-and-Tell, this one from blogger shiso mama, aka Mimi. Mimi writes: We really hated the idea of filling our (new) house with a lot of junky kids' stuff, so w...

How To: Childproof Table Legs

When we put together our baby's changing table (oh so cleverly out of Metro shelves, as featured here), it didn't occur to us that the rounded industrial chrome legs would become prime head bumping t...

Nursery Show and Tell: Milo Goes Modern

Nursery Show-and-Tell continues with this great mod nursery from Lori. She writes: I wanted something bright and cheery and didn't want to go with traditional nursery pastels or primary colors. I...

Owl Night Light

Whooo says you can't decorate a kid's room with stuff that will be appreciated by both child and parent? Here's a licensed-character-free fused glass night light that we think will manage to endear it...

Nursery Show and Tell: S.Carter's Pasadena DIY

We're so pleased that folks are playing nursery show and tell! Since yesterday's shout out, we've received a number of great nursery submissions from AT reader-parents who are full of resourceful id...

Kids' Rooms: Virtual Room Creator

SF blogger, author, and mom-to-be Maggie Mason (Mighty Girl and Mighty Goods) always cracks us up. We love her posts about things she's overheard, and she's pointed us to interesting products like th...

Modern Nurseries: A Show and Tell

Kids' Design Month is near its wane, and we're feeling sad that we've only seen one reader nursery. So to get things going, here's ours: it's actually the dining room of our one-bedroom rental, and wa...

Mamma Rocking Chair

Yes, it's definitely in the stratospheric price range -- but the Mamma Rocking Chair is so striking that we just had to blog it. Created by Canadian industrial designer Patrick Messier for Sophie F...

Baby Bunk / Toddler Bench

Ah, co-sleepers. Everyone said we have to have one, so we rushed out to purchase an Arms Reach in the days leading up to our daughter's birth. It was a folding plastic and metal thing, and it was supp...

Dex Folding Changing Pad

There are different schools of thought about diaper changing stations. Some folks find them a key item in the nursery. Others eschew them, saying that they take up unnecessary space. We're in both ca...

Baby Bobo Chair

Kids love kid-sized furniture, but a hot pink Princess-themed mini armchair can really undo your living room decor. The high-end Baby Bobo Chair, designed by Dietmar Scharping and Jake Hawkes, is ac...

Incorporating Design for Kids

Earlier this week AT:NY slinked House in Progress' "How to Incorporate Design for Children in a House?" Jeanne wrote, "The designing for children I'm referring to doesn't mean decorating or wall deca...

Top Ten: Small Kid, Small Space Tips

Reader/mom/activist ChilangaMama wrote in with some great tips for living with a baby or toddler in a small space: • Skip the changing table; all you need is a pad • Skip the glider •...

Jam Tart Baby Modern Baby Quilts

Jam Tart Baby's gorgeous modern quilts are vaguely reminiscent of Denyse Schmidt's. But they're for babies. Christina Romeo creates the one-of-a-kind quilts in British Columbia, using bold colors an...

Modernseed Essentials

Oakland's own Modernseed has just come out with the first three pieces of a house line of modern furnishings for kids, designed by husband and wife team Melissa and Eric Pfeiffer. They are the Chalker...

J Schatz Star Egg Nightlight

We can easily imagine falling asleep while looking at stars on the ceiling. As kids, we actually stuck those plastic glow-in-the-dark stars on our bedroom ceiling, but we were always disappointed whe...