February 10, 2005
Like many of my generation, I grew up on Richard Scarry's densely illustrated books. His humorously anthropomorphized animal world is a formative element of almost every kid's imagination. And now I find out the guy was a slackin' dropout and...
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Besides the Eames RAR Rocker, of course, there were remarkably few rocking chair designs to come out of the mid-century golden age of American modernism. One rare example, the Rapid Rocker, was created for Knoll in 1945 by Ralph Rapson,...
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Here are a few notable search queries that brought people to Daddy Types this week: is bugaboo frog cheaper in the netherlands? [have you seen the euro these days, pal?] geek dad buying stroller [I'm sure I have no idea...
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A very polite gentleman just made me this exclusive offer in the comments section of an un-related post. [Note to corporate and publicist types: the email works better. -dt] It sounds so sweet, I thought I'd check with the...
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We have a stack of Oh! Chairs, designed by Karim Rashid for Umbra, in our place in DC. When we needed some stacking chairs, I had the image of it in my mind--left over from an old NYT article about...
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