Road Trip! Rainbow Valley Mall Playground By Friends With You

So apparently, last December while I was busy staring at Skywalkers, their insane beachfront art blimp parade in Miami Beach, the art/toy/play collective Friends With You was busy opening Rainbow Valley, their first indoor playground--right in front of Sears...
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Maurice Sendak Watches The Learning Channel

NOW I remember why I had this Maurice Sendak interview sitting open in my browser tabs for three days. I guess when I said Sendak was weird, I meant perceptive, while simultaneously making me realize how weird I am. Because...
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Actually, I Would've Expected A Stokke

Dateline, SEATTLE: Shouldn't there be an adapter for this? This is What We've Become: Woman Pushes Baby on Segway [gizmodo via dt reader antoine]...
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Have You Seen Me? E-27 Re-Serve High Chair Still Being Sold From Renderings

I just noticed that the UK baby gear store Tiny Dodo is selling the cool but seemingly mythical Re-Serve high chair by Berlin-based design studio, e27. The powder-coated steel high chair has a removable 600d nylon seat cushion [isn't...
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Mmmm, MB C63 AMG Wagon Spy Shots Make Daddy Smile, Too

September in Frankfurt, anyone?Mercedes’ new-generation C-Class will be available in C 63 AMG guise with the firm’s sophisticated 6.3-litre V8, capable of pumping a massive 520 bhp but likely to be tamed to around 400 to 420 bhp for...
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Maurice Sendak On The Revolutionary Nature Of The Carrot Seed

Having this library copy of The Carrot Seed in the house got me to digging for more Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson titles. Maurice Sendak gets a big shoutout on the dustjacket, too, and it turns out Sendak illustrated...
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The Thilde Pocket: Saddlebags For A Crib

So Pia Eriksson's idea for designing the Thilde Pocket was to buy her and her baby daddy some more time in the morning, by giving the kid [Thilde, obviously] something to entertain herself with. See, it just velcros over...
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Fire Chief Car In A Box, Baby! Pristine Creative Playthings Fire Chief Car On eBay

Christmas: chief in a box Hanukkah: chief in a box Kwanzaa: a chief in a box Birthday party in the Fifties that someone ended up skipping, and so the present went undelivered and was stored in a cool, dry place...
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Vintage Swedish Play Screen By Stephan Gip, c.1970

Wait, you mean the Stephan Gip? The guy who designed the original trapezoidal high chair that has been knocked off and sold to every sitdown restaurant in the Western Hemisphere, that Stephan Gip? Yep....
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