Paris – part 1

A while ago I promised some continental news from the Paris design show and now we’re post chicken pox, I can deliver. We ate croissants morning, noon and night (Granny, Wilf and I) and ended up sharing a bed in our tiny rented Montmartre apartment which was interesting with a fidgety 20 month old, but all in all it was fun and enlightening. It is a vast show with too many beauties to put on one blog post, so here are some treats from the Belgium contingent for starters…

Everything about Domani’s stand was inspiring – products, display, lighting, even the giveaway sweeties were well received.

Ateliers Bodart & Vange had some innovative products too, in particular Christian Desile’s folding chair and the slinky style bench by Charles Kaisin.

Atelier Vierkant’s creations are bold and beautiful, perfect colour and form. Oh to have a huge garden and an even bigger budget.

Kids Modern

A big thanks to Kids Modern, we had a fun and fruitful day at the design show at Dulwich College yesterday.

There were some really innovative designs, especially the punch’n'cuddle dolls, it was brilliant watching the little ones rush in and immediately pounce on this mad weeble like object (www.punchncuddle.com). We were really impressed with the ‘billy rocker’ stall too, partly because he was pretty much running a shop come nursery but mainly because of the brilliant product. A simple flat pack three piece rocking horse, constructed of cardboard, so you can create your own rocking horse, monster, scribble, anything goes and all for £28 (www.mr-kaliski.com). We bought one for little Wilf, though he’ll probably just want to eat it at the moment.  

 

Us a Kids Modern

Us at Kids Modern

 

Punch'n'cuddle doll

Punch'n'cuddle doll

 

Billy rocker

Billy rocker