Category archive: nursery

November 17, 2009

Doris Duke's Leftover Thai

Doesn't this pile of Thai lounging pillows look like it belongs in a playroom? Except that you'd always be having to dig your keys, half-eaten apple slices, and Cheerios out of all those little nooks, they'd be awesome. The...
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November 10, 2009

Noah's Big Gay Ark By Clifford Richards

St. Matthew in the City, an Anglican parish in Auckland, NZ, has a super, big, gay billboard to promote their weekly LGBT service. It's a big, gay Noah's Ark by UK designer Clifford Richards, updated from his original 1970...
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November 9, 2009

Parenting Echo Park-Style

"People tell you you need all this stuff for a baby. All you really need is diapers, a place to change him and boobs." --mom/ceramicist Kelly Breslin, who shares a tricked out, 380-sf, converted bachelor pad in Echo Park with...
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November 7, 2009

T Is For The Tiniest Shoppers

Wow, who at the NY Times T Magazine offices is having a baby? Because almost the entire Winter Design & Living issue is devoted to kid- and family-related design. Some highlights: Fred Bernstein's got a piece about how it's alright...
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September 22, 2009

K+J09: German Princess Furniture, 100% Child Labor-Free!

From what I can tell, Maja Prinzessin von Hohenzollern is the Sarah Ferguson of Germany, only [obviously] hotter, and luckier to be rid of her prince. Maja was the third wife of a Royal jackass named Ferfried Maximilian Pius...
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September 15, 2009

Mid-Century Kids Rooms As Photographed By Maynard Parker

Maynard Parker was a prolific architecture and design photographer based in Los Angeles who shot for House Beautiful, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest, for decades. Though he died way back in 1976, his massive archive was donated to the Huntington Library...
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September 4, 2009

Awesome Rain Forest Diversity Poster

I don't speak German, so the website's no help, but from this poster, I assume Oro Verde is an educational foundation promoting children's awareness of the awesome array of diggers mankind uses to show the rain forest who's the...
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August 29, 2009

Vinyl Wall Decal Not A Toy

By now I think it's clear to all concerned that die-cut vinyl stickers are no mere fad, but are a new, enduring classic. And as such, they deserve a place alongside flocked wallpaper, supergraphics, rag painting and feather marbleizing...
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August 27, 2009

Bam!

And that, my friends, is how you sell a bassinet in a depression. Argington just announced their newest, greenest, and cheapest nursery furniture ever, and I think it might just rock. The Bam Collection is available in birch or solid...
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August 18, 2009

Raised On The Roof: Unite d'Habitation Nursery & Creche

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Unite d'Habitation roof, originally uploaded by stewartski. Unité d'habitation, the massive, postwar housing tower in...
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July 28, 2009

From Mid-Century Nursery To Mid-Century Kid's Room

Ahh, summer, when a designblogger's thoughts turn to wondering what California modernism aficionado [and DT regular] Darren's daughter Ava's room is up to. Last year, Darren and his wife Elise had their La Jolla Eichler home featured on Apartment...
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July 12, 2009

h2o architectes: Ceci N'est Pas Un Loftbed

You may know h2o architectes from such elaborately minimalist children's indulgences inserted into historical buildings as that insane, EUR75,000, 4-level birch ply buildout of that abandoned garden shed for that suburban Paris teenager. Well, they're at it again. A young...
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July 2, 2009

Why Not...Use A Tool Cart For A Changing Table?

Indeed. Congratulations to Cookie editor Meryl's friend Sara and her husband for this innovative use of an automotive tool cart for a smart, sleek and chic industrial-style changing table! The industrial changing table that launched Daddy Types, which I...
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June 30, 2009

Finally, The DT Juddy Crib

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I just posted some photos from a few months ago of the finished crib/toddler bed...
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June 15, 2009

Art For The People! 20x200x20% Off

I've written about 20x200 before; it's the online art gallery that publishes limited edition photos and prints at prices ranging from $20 to $50 all the way up to $5,000. Until Tuesday night, though, those prices will range from...
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June 8, 2009

Snow White And The Seven Murdered Jews Of Drohobycz

Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer and artist who lived in the city of Drohobycz, now part of Ukraine. After the Nazis took over and began killing Jews, Schulz was kept alive for a year by a Gestapo...
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June 6, 2009

Chris Burden's Atomic Alphabet

In 1980, the Cold War was raging, and artist Chris Burden was settling into the grown-up teaching job he'd secured at UCLA through his previous decade of attention-grabbing, self-mutilating performance art [c.f., getting shot in the arm, getting nailed...
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June 3, 2009

Sotheby's Gets A Turn At Adorable Warhols

Andy Warhol published a boardbook in 1983 through his Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger. It's a series of silkscreen paintings of toys and animals taken from vintage ads. We have some copies, and it's cool, but neither kid has shown...
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November 12, 2008

Hey, Neighbor! We Heard You Had A Baby!

The NY Times' Julie Scelfo reports that thanks to Ricki Lake's documentary about having her baby in her bathtub in the West Village, home births are all cool now in the city. And not just among "hippie freaks or religious...
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August 9, 2008

Look, I'm Your Father's Darth Vader Stained Glass Window

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Darth Vader Stained Glass Window, originally uploaded by axoplasm. Finally, a decades-later Star Wars sequel...
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