Design for Children: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep

by Kimberlie Birks, Lora Appleton (Contributor)

A comprehensive, genre-defining survey of children's product and furniture design from Bauhaus to today Design for Children , a must-have book for all style-conscious and design-savvy readers, documents the evolution of design for babies, toddlers, and beyond. The book spotlights more than 450 beautiful, creative, stylish, and clever examples of designs created exclusively for kids - from toys, furniture, and tableware, to textiles, lights, and vehicles. Contemporary superstars and twentieth-century masters, including Philippe Starck, Nendo, Marc Newson, Piero Lissoni, Kengo Kuma, and Marcel Wanders, are showcased.

Genres: Design

536 pages, Hardcover

Published October 17, 2018

Reviews

[Idjart]

some interesting highlights from the book:
nesting dolls
Georg Jensen The Twist Family Kids Cutlery Set
rabbit chair baby 2016 stefano giovannoni qeeboo
Danese Milano Enzo Mari - Animal Figures Puzzle Ltd Ed
bumble and bumble hoptimist
giffy table lamp leanter
spinning tops 2015 piero lissoni porro

[Vuk Trifkovic]

Lovely (coffee table) book. Great mix of classics and recent designs. Of course, excellently produced - Phaidon knows how to put a tome like this together.

[John Martz]

These mfers can’t get enough of an abstract rocking horse.