Chairs that shrink as your child grows. At first glance, the idea seems ridiculous. After all, your child's getting bigger; why would you want their seats to get smaller?
Two designers—Charlotte Friis and Maartje Steenkamp—have come up with intriguing products that try to answer that question.
Friis has created her Children's Paper Chair as both seat and entertainment. As the toddler grows into childhood, the paper level decreases, and as a result, your child is always sitting at the right height.
The kind of pop-ups we like. Sculpture in a book, pop-ups have always seemed to us like 3-D pieces of art on the page.
Modern mobiles. From our first college art class introduction to the mobiles of Alexander Calder, we fell in love with dangling sculptures and the way objects moved and twirled in the air suspended from thin wires.
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Compact and multipurpose. Finally, a company that does more than just make a toddler bed conversion kit. 
