Luckey Climbers : Playground Structures That Make Life More Fun
Lucky Climbers create playground climbing structures, that look like sculptures. Dozens of Luckey Climbers have delighted children and adults alike in cities across the world, including Ireland, Switzerland, Singapore and China.
A Shift in Values Everywhere by Charles Eisenstein
"I've been seeing news articles a lot recently about parents being arrested and their children removed from their custody because they let them play unsupervised outdoors. I'm linking to one here. The first thing I felt upon reading it was intense indignation, and alienation…
Leanter, Emotional Design
Gift is a lamp by Leanter, inspired by nature. Made out of wood and aluminum, it is available in 7 different tones.
Jippi’s new home products
Based in Paris, Jippi promotes Norwegian design from the past and the present, by using natural and exclusive materials. Their sheepskins, reindeer skins, vases, small pieces of furniture are all highly desirable, and their latest collection of plaids Roros Tweed, in…
Cool & Beautiful : Eco Toy Tip Cart FRANZ” by Sirch
Tip cart FRANZ, by German company Sirch, is the winner of the Smallish Design Awards 2015 in the Eco Toy category.
Art with Kids in Milan
This summer will take us to Switzerland (for only long enough to allow us a swim in an Alpine lake), to Italy (Milan, Bergamo and Venice), to Lithuania (Vilnius), to the Latvian countryside (near Daugavpils) and to France (Saint-Remy de Provence, Les Landes - just above Biarritz…
Where the wild things are
When was the last time - or indeed, the first time - that you went some place really wild with your kids? Not just off-road, but truly wild. Where there are no roads. A place that you might encounter an unfamiliar face. Perhaps the closest we've come to visiting a place that…
100 Questions: Family Edition
Last month, London's School of Life launched 100 Questions: Family Edition - a toolkit designed to bring families closer together. Good conversation can be the key to building strong connections between generations. It's not always easy to kickstart a truly enriching…
For the incurably curious
'A destination for the incurably curious'. The personal collection of over one million objects that Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) collected in his lifetime represents the core of The Wellcome Collection, a true wunderkammer cabinet of curiosities, all revolving around the…
Origanids, pop up playhouses to unfold our imagination
Fascinated by modular micro-architectures, Sarah Osseland created the Origanids, foldable play houses made in recycled materials, that can be bought on her website needahouse.fr.
DUDUK, Home Collection to sit in or on
When Naomi Bolderhey-Pescheux and Judith Bakker met in Indonesia. The two Dutch designers were expats in the country at that time, and it took them only a blink to come up with the idea to team and to create a children's line. DUDUK was born, out of a common love for beautiful…
Meditate on this
Elsewhere, Pirouette has remarked on the benefits of meditation for children, and simple ways that healthier classroom habits have improved school results. So it's natural to highlight this move at the margins of American schooling to make meditation part of the curriculum.…