Special Collection Metallic Silver Bugaboo Cameleon. At Neiman Freakin' Marcus.

Neiman Marcus, I wish I knew how to quit you. Here, I just this morning promised everyone I'd stop posting about your 100th anniversary and your nonsensical Christmas catalogue items, and then the Bugaboo publicists drop this in my inbox,...
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JPMA's Statement On The Biggest Crib Recall In History, Annotated

Our Baby Industrial Complex at work. Here's the text of a statement released by the JPMA, with a little extra context:Statement of JPMA Concerning the Simplicity Recall Representatives of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) have met with Simplicity, Inc....
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Vik Muniz Will Make A Chocolate Syrup Portrait Of Your Kid Or Whoever

Now I love me some Vik Muniz, and I love commissioning me some portraits of the kid by artists whose work we love and collect already. So how can I be anything but thrilled at the chance of getting...
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Can We Eat It? Yes, We Can! Digger-Shaped Dinner Set

Seriously, a bulldozer is a hundred times more useful than a knife. Why has no one thought of that before? Despite what you may read at BoingBoing, this construction tool dinner set is not by Tonka, just Tonka-colored. Constructive...
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Barcelonita! Knoll Makes Kid-Sized Barcelona Chair

I guess when Genius Jones commissioned one of the old Long Island City manufacturers of Mies Van Der Rohe's Barcelona Chair to make a 2/3-scale children's version, and it got written up in The New York Times [below], and...
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Saarinen Womb Chair Now Available In Three Sizes: Just Right, Too-Small And Way Too Small

Interesting. Knoll recently introduced two child-sized versions of two of its iconic chairs, including the classic 1948 Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen and--I can't find the other one. [Maya Lin's Stones stools, perhaps?] Lin's around, but Saarinen's been gone...
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