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Posts tagged “children”

Unica Home: Big, Modern, Fun

Showtime! What if you opened an online modern homestore in Las Vegas and offered every cool design manufacturer under the sun, along with products for children, pets as well as soap, watches and ar...

Etsy Find: Celebrating MCM Design
Washington, DC

Tired of onesies featuring bunnies, teddies, or cars? Looking to give your baby a more modern style to match your own? Tiny Modernist has the answer- adorable onesies featuring felt appliques of...

DIY Storage Made From Wooden Drum Shells

From Ohdeedoh: home.design.children

• Wooden Drum Shells Become Pretty Storage: Our spring storage contest is in full swing! Here's our first entry. Below the jump: Illustrator Fabric and Vintage Finds...

From Ohdeedoh
Our site that covers modern homelife with children

• Learn how to make Sculpey Nature Prints - they're easy enough for kids to make and beautiful enough for you to display. Below the jump: The Evolutionary Chair, Re-Surface Lighting and P...

The Mailbox Vanity by Waterfall Bathroom Furniture

This little sink, called The Mailbox, makes us want to start a family right now. The cute design comes with a low drawer for the little ones and a step stool. To quote the manufacturere, Waterfall B...

Le Baldaquin

More from Montreal. Fine home linens and decor in an inspiring space. That's what we found in Le Baldaquin, a shop located in the historic Old Montreal......

Scandinavian Design Center

Super-Store. With a mission to "market and sell Scandinavian Design worldwide" we thought it was time to devote a store post to the online retailer Scandinavian Design Center. After all, we've poste...

Argington: Children's Heirloom Furniture

Super cool. Some people just have design sense..... and they are crunchy too. Argington came in through the door this week and we not only like their children's furniture, we like their font, thei...

The Collection

Take a shopping trip to France without leaving the net. We recently found The Collection and we're won over by their home decor products. Though the shop is in France, they ship worldwide and have a...

Birdland International

It's a cute and funny combination. Birdland International makes heirloom-quality products for babies and birds. What do they have in common? Well, all products are made to last and be passed on. They'...

Spring Design & Art

As if Brooklyn wasn't cool enough, along comes Spring Design & Art, the brainchild of Anna Consentino and Steve Butcher. Imagine a design shop more approachable than Moss, but just as experimental an...

Pylones

Goofy chic. Pylones carries crazy home products that tend to be plastic, colorful, and wacky. And more often than not, they're products that are molded into animal shapes just for fun. Most everythi...

Textile Arts

Easy Art. We've always been huge fans of Marimekko prints. And Textile Arts is an online distributor of the Finish textiles you see in Crate & Barrel. While some of us may be familiar with Unikko and...

Apartment 48

Shopping at Apartment 48 is like visiting the home of a good friend. The small shop is broken up into rooms and is furnished as if it is lived in. Kitchen goods in the kitchen, bedroom furnishings i...

Vivavi, Inc.

Maxwell first posted Vivavi here back in 2004 regarding the Washington, D.C. boutique. Now, there is a Vivavi showroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; brought to you by Josh Dorfman , the founder of Vivavi...

NettoCollection

We went to elementary school with David and were shocked when we found out that he had designed, manufactured and was selling high end nursery furniture. Hey, most of the people we went to elementa...

Schneider's Juvenile Furniture

Everyone visits. We did, and although the rumor was that they could often be gruff, we found them helpful and easy going. Recently moved from the East Village to Gramercy, this old school baby mecca w...

Modernseed: Furniture, Fashion & Design For Kids

These folks have a good eye. In the last five years, we've seen many children's shops pop up online, and some have sold clean, simple design born of a wave of optimism and belief in a "fresh start" th...

Acorn: A Brooklyn Toy Shop

Designed by fairies. We stumbled into Acorn last Christmas and felt like we were stepping back in time; back to a time when toys didn't need batteries and swords were the weapon of choice. This is ha...

Kid-O

Modern design for modern kids. We heard about Kid-O from a friend with twins who drools every time she walks by the store. Kid-O seems to bring out this kind of intense emotion. While some parents fin...

Mobiles by Julie Frith

The children's shop Kid-O has a beautiful mobile hanging in their window, which has been purchased repeatedly as a gift for friends nurseries. Now we think we know where it came from. Mobiles by Jul...

The Magazine

Dot.com dinosaur. Before there was DWR, before there was EdgeModern, there was The Magazine. Founded in 1990 in the Bay Area to supply the region with the hottest modern furniture, rumor has it that...

Magic Cabin

Fairy children. Here's another resource to tuck in your cap. Magic Cabin is a catalog company that sells "Childhood's Purest Treasures," meaning handmade, all-natural dolls, toys, crafts and furnitu...

Petal Soap Company - Brooklyn, NY

For small hands. We've bought Petal Soaps from the owners, Tamara and Julie, for the past two years, but it just occured to us that what distinguishes them (in our mind) is the unique size of all the...

Sons and Daughters

Children's revolution. We just heard of a new children's store in the East Village. Called Sons and Daughters, it comes to us with high praise. Opened in 2003 by Carin van der Donk, Sons and Daught...