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Dutch designer Frederik Roijé has designed a piece of furniture for children combining a chair, table and lamp.

Frederik Roijé‘s Little Triple Chair is intended for daycare centres and libraries and expands on his Triple Objects collection for adults.

“Children nowadays are growing up with iPads,” Roijé told Dezeen. “I would like to stimulate the basic creative activities of reading, drawing, playing and writing.”

Manufactured in the Netherlands, the chair is made from wood and has a polyamide fibre coating, typically used on the back of children’s puzzles. 

Described by as Roijé “huggable”, the material is chosen to be soft and durable.

Frederik Roijé started his studio in Amsterdam in 2003 and specializes in interior and product design. We have also recently featured his collection of candle holders that look like bent pipes poking through the wall. See all our stories about design by Frederik Roijé »

We have featured lots of children’s furniture on Dezeen too, such as a Stacking Throne, a herd of benches and alphabet chairs. See all of our stories about children’s furniture »

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Dutch Design Week 2011: best known for his grown-up furniture that would be quite at home in a fairy tale, Amsterdam designer Bo Reudler presents a collection of children’s furniture in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week this week. 

The series is made of solid Dutch oak from a traditional wind-powered saw mill.

It comprises a table, chair, rocking horse, wheelbarrow and doll’s cradle, constructed from basic shapes that retain the curve of each raw board.

The collection will be auctioned on Ebay and at the Klokgebouw exhibition at Strijp-s this week, to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund.

Dutch Design Week continues until 30 October.

See more work by Bo Reudler here and more furniture for children here.

Photographs courtesy of Bo Reudler Studio.

Here are some more details from Bo Reudler:

DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2011
Kids’ Furniture by Bo Reudler Studio
World Wildlife Fund Design Auction

Bo Reudler Studio presents the Kids’ Furniture series during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven 22-30 October 2011. The furniture will be exhibited at a design auction and exhibition organised by the World Wildlife Fund to held in the Klokgebouw, Strijp-S.

A wooden furniture series for children. The collection is composed from elemental shapes and basic materials, built in an intuitive, playful way.

The series comprises a table and chair, rocking horse, wheelbarrow and doll’s cradle.

The objects are hand made from solid oak finished with a coating of natural oil and soft colorful footings of woollen felt. The edges of the furniture retain the original curves of the trunk or branch enabling every piece to be unique.

The wood originates from fallen Dutch trees that are sawn in the traditional wind-powered sawmill Het Jonge Schaap situated in the Zaanse Schans, Zaanstad.

The collection was realized with the generous support of Het Jonge Schaap and Jantien Ranzijn & vdr.

Bo Reudler Studio is a product and interior design studio led by Bo Reudler, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Bo graduated from the ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design and is also co-founder of Asylum Collection. The work of the studio aims to charge objects with imagination and meaning,working as storytellers through matter, experimenting with materials, following their hidden qualities to bring out their natural beauty.

World Wildlife Fund Design Auction

The design exhibition and auction organized by the World Wildlife Fund will be held from 22-30 October 2011 in the Klokgebouw on the Strijp-s terrain. Buyers can bid for the products online via e-bay or via auction forms at the exhibition. The proceeds of each sale will be donated to a WWF project as nominated by the buyer. The exhibition is open daily from 12-18:00pm.

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Haute Bamboo by Bo Reudler and Olav Bruin	Slow White Series by Bo Reudler	More Slow White furniture by Bo Reudler

A shelving unit displaying children’s clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture.

The playhouse occupies a children’s clothes shop in Paris, designed by French studio Mut Architecture and architect Benjamin Mahon.

The set of steps slide out to allow shop-workers to reach the highest shelves, while a hollow box on wheels rolls away to provide an island table.

Other interiors that integrate children’s play areas include a perforated bedroom wall that can be used as a ladder and a bed with a play den below.

Photography is by Mut Architecture.

The following short description is from the architects:

In collaboration with Benjamin Mahon, Mut architecture has completed a children’s store in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

The main concept for the store was to construct a large doll house within the store, a house you can pull drawers out of, swing doors from, ‪a doll house that lends itself to the imagination of children‬.

Ladders on wheels are embedded in the structure of the house, and a box is set within the house and can be removed to be used as a central island within the shop, to expose products.

From the street the giant house seems to be overwhelming the volume of the 16 meter square shop.

We used poplar plywood for the interior of the store with white stratification and mirrors to accent the fresh feel of the wood surfaces.

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Training Dresser by Peter Bristol	Rocker by Doshi Levien for Richard Lampert	Under My Roof by Christian Vivanco

The drawers of this children’s dresser designed by Seattle product designer Peter Bristol are shaped to match their contents.

Training Dresser comes in two different designs, one for girls and one for boys.

The graphics help children learn to find or put away their clothes.

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Here are a few words from the designer:

Training Dresser

Like Dr. Suess and Pixar, the Training Dresser is for more than one audience. The informative drawers create an engaging dresser for kids and an iconic furniture piece for parents.

Well considered and well made. The dresser is hand crafted and packaged with care in Eastern Washington by the crew Mountain View Cabinetry.

The cabinet is made from ¾” ULDF and finished with conversion varnish. The drawers are 9 ply ½” maple plywood, dovetailed and finished with clear catalyzed lacquer. All cabinet and drawer components are cut, drilled and dadoed on a CNC table router. Assembled with a combination of screws, pins, staples, glue, and Pacific Northwest fresh air.

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Chambre d’enfants by Ciel Architectes	Stacking Throne by Laurens van Wieringen	Atelier Book Chair by Kana Nakanishi