Designers put fun in functional for kids’ décor

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Designers of kids’ furniture are letting their imaginations continued course away with them, and that’sitting great news in quest of haunch parents looking conducive to fun, exuberant catastropheécor.

The color wheel is spinning happily amid bookcases and bedding. And many designers are taking a whimsical, artistic push forward with the very shape of furniture.

Judson Beaumont, holder and head designer on account of Vancouver, B.C.,’s Straight Line Designs (www.straightlinedesigns.com), has concocted a world of Alice-in-Wonderland-esque pieces that straddle craftsmanship and inventiveness.

Bookcases stack haphazardly, preference a giant tossed them into the air. Cabinets through names like “Oops” and “Boom” have the appearance to have had run-ins through things wild and wonderful. Others, like Joined at the Hips and Sobey, bend and twist, yet have perfectly aligned drawers.

The import is fanciful, but the furniture is practical and well-crafted.

“The idea behind the pieces is again nearly, what if a piece of furniture could change and have its own personality?” says Beaumont. “I’ve always been a cool of Disney and Dr. Seuss, so it just made sense to make these crazy shapes. But the most important thing with my designs is they have to be functional as well as frolic.”

Dust Furniture in Valparaiso, Ind. (www.dustfurniture.com), is another studio experimenting with shapes. A penetrating blue side table and lime green bookcase may slouch impudently, except they’re still serious working furniture.

Jessie Leman, Dust’s project manager and wife of designer Vincent Leman, says the pieces are intended not just for juvenile people but “for youthful spirits, no body their age. Our furniture is definitely for anyone with a playful imaginative faculty.”

Plushpod (www.plushpod.com), long a retailer of trendy kids’ furnishings, carries the iconic P’kolino line from Italy, featuring a kid-size clothes draw off in happy hues analogous tangerine and lime, and a collection of pint-size laminated play tables and chairs. Their Tarantino layered high-density foam chairs would withstand the most high-spirited of play dates.

This saltation, Pottery Barn Kids (www.potterybarnkids.com) partnered with the Dr. Seuss Foundation on a line of decals, systematized cotton bedding, and soft furnishings featuring Seuss’ greatest in quantity popular characters, like as The Cat in The Hat and the One Fish, Two Fish gang.

Janet Hayes, executive vice president for the retailer in San Francisco, says the collaboration aims “to excite and satisfaction” children while inspiring parents to get creative.

There was another, practical consideration.

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