Design for Children: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep [Hardcover]

A comprehensive, genre-defining survey of children's product and furniture design from Bauhaus to today

Design for Children, a must-have book for all style-conscious and design-savvy readers, documents the evolution of design for babies, toddlers, and beyond. The book spotlights more than 450 beautiful, creative, stylish, and clever examples of designs created exclusively for kids - from toys, furniture, and tableware, to textiles, lights, and vehicles.

Contemporary superstars and twentieth-century masters, including Philippe Starck, Nendo, Marc Newson, Piero Lissoni, Kengo Kuma, and Marcel Wanders, are showcased.

Kimberlie Birks is a New York-based design writer and editor. Born in Montreal, she studied art history at Brown University and design criticism at the School of Visual Arts, where she wrote a graduate thesis on playground design. Her writing has featured inDwell,Domus,Metropolis, andAzure.

For older, design-savvy and style-conscious kids or those interested in product, lighting and furniture design. —City Kids

At a time when the market for well-made, innovative objects for children is undergoing a transformative, and global explosion,Design for Childrendocuments the evolution of craftsmanship, exceptional production and modern aesthetics throughout this increasingly important field of design. —AbsolutelyMama.co.uk

Catalogues 450 of the most enduring designs created exclusively for children. —Western Living Magazine

Elegant, radical, fun: Children's toys that even adults will cherish. —CNN Style

Design for Childrenoutlines the history of children's design through seven categories: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, and Sleep. By spotlighting more than 450 designs created exclusively for children (toys, furniture, tableware, textiles, lights, vehicles, and more) this book thoroughly explores thl³3