Hasta La Ideas

Spanish designers CuldeSac have designed this high-chair with removable legs and accessories so that it’s still useful when the child starts to grow.

The Ovo high chair for baby equipment brand Micuna has a wipe-clean seat, tray and footrest.

The tray, bars and leg extensions can all be removed as the child grows to let them sit with adults at the dinner table.

Other high chairs designed to change with your child include the classic 1972 Tripp Trapp chair by Peter Opsvik and Maartje Steenkamp’s 2003 version for Droog where consumers saw off the legs as the child grows, but Dezeen is too young to have featured either.

See all the stories we have published about childrens’ furniture here and more projects by CuldeSac here.

The information below is from the designers:

Being Born Is Beautiful!

CuldeSacTM explores a new language for Micuna’s Ovo high chair

CuldeSac’s team grows not only in number, but also in responsibility and in commitment to the environment, family and friends. New personal realities bring new challenges to improve our daily adventures and the human experience behind them. More and more, today’s families live in open multifunctional spaces where everything is in sight. Design is the perfect tool to combine form and content, aesthetics and functionality… But then there are kids, flooding every space with a thousand and one daily survival pieces conceived for parents, designed for children.

With Micuna’s Ovo high chair, CuldeSac chose to delve deep into the language of children’s furniture and translate it to the living spaces of today. The Ovo high chair is able to live among children and grown-ups not requiring to be removed after use thanks to its adaptability to any design environment. Once the aesthetic aspects are resolved, the high chair also reaches the functional demands of all-terrein pieces: washable fabric, baby reins, adjustable tray and footrest.

Furthermore, the Ovo high chair adds an emotional ingredient: its accessories and legs easily adapt to the child’s own growth and take with them their first steps into that other big adventure: growing-up.

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London designer Tomás Alonso presented a range of shelves and lighting that combine ash timber with leather saddlery during the London Design Festival.

Each shelf is suspended on natural leather straps, of a similar tone and colour to the wood.

The timber and leather are joined with little brass studs.

The collection also includes a basket, a tray and a lamp with a glass shade.

Vera, Chapter One was an exhibition curated by Kirsty Minns and Érika Muller (KM & ÉM), which asked designers to use a fictional character, Vera, as their muse.

See all our stories about the London Design Festival here.

Photographs are by Benedict Morgan.

The text below is from Vera curators KM & ÉM:

Tomás Alonso
Aintree

Every weekend, for as far back as she could remember, Vera and her parents would go away for day trips, sometimes to the beach, sometimes to the hills, sometimes to see her Aunt and Granddad. It was what they did.

She especially liked going to Stanmer Park. It was a regular outing spot for her and her family, but she didn’t mind because she could see the horses there. She loved horses.

Looking at them in the fields always gave her a feeling of freedom. It made her daydream of all the places they could go the day she learnt how to ride. She was especially fond of Aintree- that’s the name she gave her favourite one. She imagined he would grow into a strong pure bred that would win the Grand National, who knows maybe even ridden by her one day.

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Dezeen Space: Brendan Magennis will be running a micro workshop demonstrating his range of Whackpack Furniture at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today.

The furniture can be assembled with just a mallet and wooden wedges, with no need for screws or glue.

Earlier this summer we featured the Bucks New University graduate’s furniture on Dezeen.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here and see all our stories about the work on show here.

There’s more about Dezeen Space here.

Dezeen Space
17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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