We totally agree with FUB philosophy: they believe that most people – kids or adults, boys or girls - like to wear clothes that feel good and allow them to move freely.
Founded in 2006 by Anne Sofie Olrik and Lotte Bundgaard, FUB makes classic, comfortable and sustainable knitwear for kids and women. Every item is carefully created and produced with a demanding regard for details and craftsmanship. The collections are purely made of OEKO-TEX® certified merino wool and GOTS certified organic cotton. FUB is contemporary classics with a clean conscience!
STUDIO OINK
We totally love the Divano per la Famiglia by Studio Oink, look at it!
It is a multifunctional sofa for children and adults.
It has two feet of different heights, which make it a sofa or a play platform: so the little ones even come to the furniture themselves and can not fall down, but also parents and siblings have enough space to read, or drink coffee. The back parts are all removable and can be placed anywhere around the sofa in the appropriate recesses. This allows the sofa to open and close again and again and offers the right room for every situation.
This furniture becomes a stage, a shop, home and resting place for all ages, it can reinvent the living room and give the space for family and get-togethers!
WE DO WOOD
We love the children pieces of furniture by the brand We Do Wood, founded in Copenhagen in 2011, and based on the vision that new Danish design and strict sustainability principles should go hand in hand.
They have made it their ambition to always seek the better alternative. They can use formaldehyde-free glue, that’s what they choose to do. When they can choose water-based paint or even avoid paint altogether by implementing other techniques such as carbonisation and oxidation, then they make the extra effort to do that. And when bamboo outperforms any woody material on every sustainability parameter they can think of, there really is no better choice in their minds.
Excellent!
NEW KIDS IN THE HOOD
Have a look at the German based brand New Kids in the Hood (NKitH) founded in 2018 by Sarah Seidel and Florian Pohrer with the mission to produce sustainable future kidswear.
This brand focuses on upcycling of post consumer waste and industrial leftovers—fabrics.
Their name is a homage to the founders teenage years and to the fearless and colorful style of the 80s and 90s. But there is also a second meaning which is deeply rooted in the story of the brand: it was summer 2016 when Sarah started organizing a playgroup for mums and their kids in the emergency shelters as part of her social work studies. There she met Hamdi—a refugee and production manager from Syria—with whom she started sewing kids clothes. Hamdi is now employed at NKitH and is a vital part of the company.
We totally love it!
LEO LEO
We find out Leo Leo: a family brand who develop designs based on play and creativity. We totally agree with their thought that there are no wrong ideas when you play, but only great ambitions to make luxurious and timeless designs for children and babies. Good job!
DESINE
Look at these pieces designed by Vincenzo Castellana for Desine, a collection of furnishings and objects designed starting from the connection between us and the things that surround us.
We love Tabuli, an hexagonal coffee table that behaves like the cell of a beehive, because togetherness makes strength and this is known by bees as much as designers and architects! This low table is a single support, but it also creates a possible wider configuration, if different parts are associated.
And we love Mammina too, a child safety gate concieved as a threshold that represents not only a limit, but also a furnishing opportunity. No longer a fixed small gate or a piece of furniture placed crosswise, but a real piece of furniture, in fact, it contains an internal metal shelf that can accommodate plants, but also books and objects of different types.
Good job guys!
Con OLAFUR ELIASSON capiamo l'importanza di salvare il nostro pianeta
Magari molti di voi hanno già avuto occasione di vedere la mostra alla Tate Modern di Londra dedicata a Olafur Eliasson. Noi non abbiamo ancora fatto in tempo a parlarne. Da piccolo Olafur Eliasson ha trascorso molto tempo in Islanda e fenomeni naturali come acqua, luce e nebbia sono stati argomenti di indagine durante la sua carriera. Sulla terrazza i visitatori incontrano per la prima volta Waterfall (2019), una nuova drammatica installazione di oltre 11 metri di altezza. All'interno della mostra gli spettatori troveranno Moss wall (1994), un vasto aereo largo 20 metri interamente coperto di muschio di renna scandinavo; Beauty (1993), inaspettatamente arcobaleno all'interno della mostra; e Din blinde passanger (Your blind passenger) (2010), che offre un viaggio viscerale attraverso un corridoio di quasi 40 metri pieno di fitta nebbia. Ulteriori lavori nella mostra affrontano l'impatto che gli esseri umani hanno sull'ambiente, tra cui una serie di fotografie dei ghiacciai islandesi scattate dall'artista nel 1999. Questo sarà sostituito in autunno da una nuova opera d'arte che incorpora la vecchia serie insieme a foto scattate 20 anni fa, illustrando i cambiamenti in questo paesaggio che stanno accadendo ora. Eliasson crea opere che spingono continuamente gli spettatori a pensare alla natura della percezione. Mentre i visitatori passano di fronte alle luci brillanti di La tua ombra incerta (colore) (2010), proiettano ombre colorate inaspettate sul muro davanti a loro, mentre le luci gialle a monofrequenza utilizzate in Room for one color (1997) riducono la percezione degli spettatori a tonalità di giallo e nero. Little Sun, lanciato per la prima volta alla Tate Modern nel 2012, fornisce lampade e caricabatterie a energia solare alle comunità senza accesso all'elettricità; e Ice Watch, un'installazione di ghiaccio glaciale della Groenlandia, recentemente messa in scena fuori dalla Tate Modern e dal quartier generale europeo di Bloomberg, che ha lo scopo di aumentare la consapevolezza dell'emergenza climatica.
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life, Tate Modern, Londra. Fino al 5 gennaio 2020
BRAWN & BREAD BY STUDIO MICAT
Look at this project titled Brawn & Bread: an outdoor gym that makes bread, using human power to process the grain, knead dough, and fuel a wood-fired oven. It was designed by the London based designers Studio MICAT and was built in August 2018 by campers, aged 11-17, at Beam Camp, New Hampshire. The structure is designed to make a performance of the processes that go into producing a loaf of bread. It is a permanent installation at Beam Camp where it will provide daily bread for up to 150 campers and staff members. The bread gym is a small but salutary reminder of the effort required to produce this daily essential. How impressive!
Here a short film of it!
THE FIVE FIELDS PLAY STRUCTURE BY MATTER DESIGN AND FR|SCH PROJECTS
We want to introduce you to the Five Fields Play Structure by the designers at Matter Design and FR|SCH Projects: a communal play structure for the historic neighborhood ‘Five Fields’ in Lexington (Massachusetts) designed and developed in the early 1950s by the Architects Collaborative (TAC) who sought to foster community through creating shared, common land.
The project is a landscape for childish exploration. It shuns function and standard, in favor of liberation. The structure cultivates a child’s—and adults—imagination through play. It encourages inventiveness through its unfolding, discoverable spaces. The playscape is tailored to child size, but still accessible to adults. It prioritizes the child user, in order to both liberate and educate. It invites the older user to reminisce, and rediscover. The structure is a space for collective imagining and celebrating of all ages.
We think it’s a wonderful way of thinking, good job!
MY FAVOURITE THINGS A PROJECT BY UNDUETRESTELLA DESIGN WEEK
Here you are a little preview of a new project we're working on.
Let’s start it talking about two designers:
Barbara Achermann of DSGN Kids from Switzerland
and Paulo Ferraz of LOWII from Brazil.
Come on, discover their personal worlds with us.
See you in September to learn more about it...
#staytuned #myfavouritethingsbyunduetrestella is coming!
WEEKEND HOUSE KIDS
We usually deal with design for kids, but when we discovered Weekend House Kids, a Spanish children's fashion brand, we fell in love with its creations.
Its collections are magical, inspired by Mirò and Picasso or reproducing characters and fun elements of the table. Today it is going to launch its website, good luck to Irina and Cristina!
Keep an eye on www.weekendhousekids.com
NAMA studio
We want to introduce you NAMA studio, an Indie textile products design studio, founded by the designer Naama Ben Moshe in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv. They wish to create a wide selection of happy high-end textile items to lighten your surrounding and make it a bit more unique.
It's all about having fun, and we love it!
PICCOLA GUIDA ALLE FOGLIE E PICCOLA GUIDA AGLI UCCELLI BY NOMOS EDIZIONI
Come è divertente disegnare foglie e uccellini? Di solito ce li inventiamo ed è ancora più facile!
Tom Frost, invece, ha deciso di regalarci una piccola guida di uccelli e foglie da “studiare” per conoscerli e “osservarli” meglio. Tom è un illustratore (e stampatore) di professione. È bravissimo ad aiutarci a riconoscere becco e colore del piumaggio degli uccelli e la forma delle foglie e i loro mille colori. Le guide sono state pubblicate due anni fa in Gran Bretagna. Adesso grazie a Nomos edizioni abbiamo la versione italiana: accanto alle illustrazioni di Tom ci sono le indicazioni di Alison Davies.
immagini di Tom Frost
AI NATI OGGI DI ALBERTO GARUTTI / TO THOSE BORN TODAY BY ALBERTO GARUTTI
After Bergamo, Ghent (Belgium), Istanbul (Turkey), Moscow (Russia), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), the Italian artist Alberto Garutti inaugurates Ai Nati Oggi in Rome today. Those born today are truly the babies who come to life in real time at the Maternity Department of the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli.
In the work Ai nati oggi the streetlights of a given place in the city, Piazza del Popolo, get brighter every time a child is born. The maternity ward in the hospital is equipped with a button that can be pushed by the staff at each new birth; the button makes the streetlight system gradually increase the intensity of the light, a surge that then subsides back to normal in about thirty seconds.
A public work of art that touches the most intimate moment of a human being.
MONKIND
Look at Monkind by the designer and lifeblood Valeria: a family-run kid’s wear brand based in Berlin whose focus is on sleek and minimal design paired with sustainability and natural, organic materials.
ILA Y ELA
Beautiful handmade creations by Ila y ela, wow!
CARAPAU
We find out Carapau Portuguese Products, a 100% Portuguese home deco brand by Rita Faria and Tiago Couto who design contemporary handmade, and hight-quality products with focus on sustainable design, color and reinvention of traditional Portuguese materials.
FABLIEK
Fabliek is a story about childhood, about what we loved and how we lived. Simple things that we want to last forever. Close your eyes…Can you hear kids laughing? Can you see how they are playing? This is what this brand is about. Childhood stories are a part of us! Share this happiness with your loved ones!
POOFI
We discover Poofi who produces organic cotton knitted blankets and toys, bedding, wooden teethers, hooded towles. it is surely one of our favorites!
MON FAB'L
We literally fell in love with this rattan furniture brand named Mon Fab’l !