OTTO HOW OLD R U?

OTTO DUNKER promising designer

how is your bed? and your cot when you were baby? I have a white wooden bed which you can pull out. But it is very big now and so long it can be because I've grown a lot. When I was little I had the same bed, only it was not pulled out. When I was a baby a slept between my mother and father mostly.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I like salmon soup. Only my mother don't cook so much. It is mostly my father who cooks. I love his food!

your favorite book to read? I like Manga series. But I also like Oliver Twist, that my mother reads to me in the evenings now.

have you got an imaginary friend? No not any more! But when I was little I had a Snail named Mr Fugo. He's dead now.

do you sleep with someone - something with? I have a couple of softies, but I don't have them in my bed all the time. It gets so crowdy.

 

LUISA AND SARAH HOW OLD R U?

LUISA, writer and mum

SARAH MARIA, communication manager and daughter

how is your bed? and your cot when you were baby? LUISA - I had a traditional cot, 50ies style, it has been used by all my relatives, my bed is covered by a textil with big flowers. SARAH - I sleep with many puppets, when my dad sings the lullabye he has to do it for everyone of them too!

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? LUISA - I hate sweet maize in can, most of all in the salad! I love beaten eggs with coffee, my mum makes them every morning for us before school. Fattening and exciting bomb! SARAH - I hate all the stuff inside the animals such as liver…I love eating new things everytime, my mum makes me happy when she cooks something new, if we cook together it is even better!

your favorite book to read? LUISA - russian fairy tales SARAH - I cannot chose, one it is not enough!

have you got an imaginary friend? LUISA- In order to drive crazy the nons at the boarding school I invented to have a depraved brother castaway from the family. SARAH - Tata and Zaffeo.

What do you want to do when you grew up? LUISA - a brave archaeologist SARAH - a director

If you could, what would you like to steal from the other one? LUISA- Her capability to find friends and keep them SARAH - Her magic capability to create beaty from everything she touchs.

FRANCESCA AND CHIARA HOW OLD R U?

FRANCESCA KAUFMANN, owner of Kaufmann Repetto Contemporary Art Gallery and sister of Chiara 

CHIARA REPETTO, owner of Kaufmann Repetto Contemporary Art Gallery and sister of Francesca

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? Francesca - I have a basic ash tree bed, from my bed we draw out another the bed where my little sister sleeps. Sometimes I make some experiments trying to suffocate her during the night. I remember my cot when my sister was born, I was 7 years old and I would have loved to jump into it! Chiara - my bed is a camp bed, I have to drag it out from my sister’s bed. I love jumping on my bed but unfortunatly last night it fell down on my mum’s ankle! I have no memories of my cot, my mum put it off as soon was possible.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? Francesca - I have a kind of trauma from boiled fennels, at the kindergarden they forced me to eat them. My mum cooks great lasagna but I am not really interested in food, sometimes she tells me that if I don’t eat enough she will have to do restorative injections to me….  Chiara - I hate fish, EVERY KIND of fish, since ever! Everything cooked by my mum is eccelent, but I especially love her pizza, when I come back from school and I smell this incredible flavour I feel like paradise!!

your favorite book to read? Francesca - favole al telefono by Gianni Rodari and the Peanuts, there I learnt the word 'sarcasm' Chiara - just one? Il paese dei maghi by Pinin Carpi, but also Grande Gigante Gentile by Roahl Dahl.

have you got an imaginary friend? Francesca - I have no imaginary friend, but when I was a baby I called myself “the girl” Chiara - no, I have no imaginary friend: I like play by myself and do my own business!

What do you want to do when you grew up? Francesca - the director of a contemporary art gallery Chiara - writer or a cashier

If you could, what would you like to steal from the other one? Francesca - her converse collection Chiara - I have to say that I am super lucky! My sister gives me a free access to her bedroom, for this reason I am not jealous. Maybe I would love to wear her glasses but I stopped with this desire when I started to use them too!

 

MARTINE HOW OLD R U?

MARTINE CAMILLIERI - artist

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I sleep in a cube (in Viet-Nam, 4 sticks, one at each corner of the bed, put up a rectangular mosquito net, as a cube). You have to open a delicate door to come in, like in a real house. It is a very personal space,  it is also a screen for my dreams. Everything seen through,  becomes soft and nice and poetic. For my craddle, as I was born in France,  I only remember the sweet warmth of my blanket when it was cold.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepares to you? Beeerk, I hate spinach, I don't want to be Popeye !

your favorite book to read? It's my pupil's textbook, it is so wonderful to see that all this black drawings mean something !! I kept this book, called La joie de lire, as I become an adult.

have you got an imaginary friend? The friend of my dreams is a husky.  As in my country, it never snow, I like to dream to white and frozen landscape. I have seen in a book a wonderful dog with a great blue regard in his russet coat. Now Husky is my friend... in my snowy mind !

What did you draw first? A lot and a lot of towns, or city, or villages... on all over the sheet. I like to imagine small or large houses for everybody, streets and roads, church, school, bakery... life.

 

MARTINE'S WORLD

Martine Camillieri plays with the objects as a material to create every time new and amazing combinations. She creates for them a second life or multiply the usages of common consumer things through recycling, or changing their use with an ecological approach. The intervention is minuscule: to look at, change, gather, pile up or turn over the objects close to us, to obtain a new world. Martine seems give us a new astonishment looking the reality, another chance to be a kid.

 

 

OSKAR HAS TO WORK

Sometimes to be a kid is an heavy work... make it simple with OSKARatWORK the table and bench for children up to about eight years by Perludi. Kids are physically active, even when they are sitting. Even an object as simple as the bench can be an invitation to creative play. The loden fabric which the table and bench are covered is an ideal and exceptionally hard-wearing surface for writing and drawing. please touch!

 

 

CARAVAN CRIB

if you like lions, clowns, acrobats and all the circus adventures you will fall in love with Caravan Crib by Kaolon Studios.  The cot is inspired by those storybook circus wagons, it plays with classic form and contemporary. Do you like green, light blue, yellow....?  ultra-bold colors, fully sustainable, 100% non-toxic, and food safe materials, adjustable mattress height and toddler bed conversion, do you need more?

 

CREATE YOUR PERFECT FLOWER!

Hey Zoomy can I introduce you Joel? He is a super dad, he has 2 children and he makes amazing toys for them.  Do you want to play with? here flower building toy he used some scrap wood and cut out shapes, then painted them. Then he drilled holes into a bunch of thick dowel pieces to make stacking beads for the stems. The end result is a toy that allows the child to make their own various flower creations! try Zoomy!

 

A SECRET ZOO

Angelica is a very special girl. Her thoughts are like the animals that live in fairy tales: they can be misterious and wise, delicate and spiteful, wild and sometimes evil... walking in a secret zoo...  a book for 6-8 years old children by topipittori.

GIOVANNA HOW OLD R U?

GIOVANNA ZOBOLI -  topi pittori publisher  how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I have a big bed, simple, confortable for reading with two night tables, one different to the other, for the books. I had a wicker cradle covered by a textil printed with spikes, botany poppy and fleurs-de-lis.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I do not like artificial flavours, my favorite food is pasta al forno.

your favorite book to read? I cannot chose just one book, I read tens of books and I love all of them

have you got an imaginary friend? myself.

What do you want to do when you grew up? to watch animals.

 

TOO LATE

The story of Little Richard who wants to be too late published by TOPI PITTORI.
Little Richard who wants to be too late even if everybody is telling him he can’t: too late is too dark; too late is too cold: too late is all closed. And Richard is too little. So, it is impossible. Unless he finds three wonderful friends, whom will help him reach the land of Too Late... A funny, surreal fantastic tale on children’s immense desires: their insatiable lust for adventure and magic and, at the same time, their immense need for love and protection.

SMILING EARTH

Zoomy loves has is breakfast and lunch with good design products and smiling!

have a look to the beautiful products of  smiling planet, they are  all manufactured in the usa with safe, sustainable, recycled, and/or organic materials. The products and designs respect the environment, and their designs make the earth safe and make people smile and ... those smiles are good for the planet, too.

A PURPLE SPOON JUST FOR ZOOMY!

PURPLE EVENING by il Cucchiaino di Alice

A purple risotto with turnip for babies and not only...

Ingredients turnip 1, slice of yellow apple 1, little onion 1, carnaroli or Arborio rice 60 gr (or 30 gr of baby rice each baby), extra virgin olive oil, vegetable stock, parmigiano cheese 1 spoon, butter (only for babies older than 1 year)

Peel the apple and the turnip, cut them in small pieces, add slices of onion.  aggiungere qualche fettina di cipollina.  Brown lightly with extra virgin olive oil, add the vegetable stock and wait blending for 10'. Add the rice and dunk with the vegetable stock.  Go on until the rice will be ready.  At the end die out and add the butter and the parmigiano cheese.

For the baby rice coock the vegetables with the stock and when they are ready add the rice.

ENJOY IT ZOOMY!!!

PETRA HOW OLD R U?

PETRA BARKHOF - stylist  how is your bed? My brother and me have a bunk bed. When it was new we faught to decide who sleeps upstairs. My brother won, but now I build a hut with bedsheets and blankets downstairs, dreaming about travelling to distant lands where it is always summer.

which kind of meal you do not like? I don't like eating. Specially I hate vegetables and meat, except spinach.

which is your favourite dish that your mom prepares to you? rice pudding with cinnamon and sugar

your favorite book to read? A collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, my favorite ones are Snow white and Rumpelstiltskin

have you got an imaginary friend? no, I have my brother, my sister and my very best friend Katrin