cardboard furniture for kids

We know that kids grow so fast, 

so maybe a small KENNO cardboard chair is a nice option for our toddler if we do not want to invest a lot in small size furniture . When a child outgrows it, you can just discard it. The sturdy yet lightweight material can be re-cycled as paper and water-based adhesives are used to create its sandwich construction.  

All shown furniture are coming from Järvi & Ruoho Helsinki based design office founded in 2003. 

They working on broad field of design, furniture, interior and concept design , 

you can find more at  jarvi-ruoho website. 

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rafa-kids beds in details

 " The details are not the details. They make the design" Charles Eames. 

A famous quote from a designer icon. Rafa-kids put a lot of effort into detailing. Also the ones which you normally don't see. For example bed bases of our beds. You just put a mattress on it, so why you should care, right ? It all started with our F bunk bed. When kids play under the bed, you can actually see the bottom of the bed, and why not make a nice element out of it ? The mattress have to be well ventilated so the composition of holes is not only looking good but is very practical at the same time! Our A teen bed has simpler good looking bed base and you actuallly can't see any joints from outside. This makes the bed looking smooth and elegant. 

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furniture from Japan : drill-design

I have a wakens for Japanese design furniture. I think its a mater of the pure look and minimal detail. You don't see much color used in their designs, so this paper-wood stools of drill-design make a little exemption. It is an experimental new material called PAPERWOOD. The ecologically-sensitive plywood was developed by this design studio and it is their own brand mark. 

Drill-design  was established in 2001 by Anzai Yoko Hayashi and Yusuke. 
They are not only interested in furniture but also design in the field of graphic, 
products, stationary etc. You can discover more  : drill-design

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notedesignstudio

I don't know about you, but when I look at some products of  Note Design Studio - I think they are so playful and childish. Colors, shapes, materials and expressions, just perfect for kids to play. I don't think this is what the designers think off ;) but at least I can easy imagine this furniture in children's room. My personal favorite is the red open wardrobe, made out of metal, with the crossing legs . Note Design Studio says that for this collection they were inspired by camping and field trip and storage boxes and shelves based on cages for trapping specimines.

They are stockholm-based design studio founded in 2008. They work within the fields of architecture, interiors, products, graphic design and design strategy, look for more : notedesignstudio

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Rafa-kids Year 2013 - Thank you!

The year 2013 is going to end soon.  

Do you want to look back with us and see how busy Rafa-kids was?

In January 2013 we got keys to our Rafa-kids studio. We did not even dream to open own studio/showroom being just a starting company not even a year on the market! We took the challenge though and fell in love with the space from the beginning. It needed some work and took 3 winter months to just make it clean and simple...

In March we launched our third product - A teen bed which is a perfect combination for the F bunk bed. Since then we have a new set F&A for two older kids.  We also extended our Rafa-kids collection with 2 new colors - white wash and dark chocolate and add mattresses to all our beds. Many parents asked us for it and we decided we would like to make life easer for them. 

Spring came with all new beds and colors delivered to our studio. 

Maybe you remember my blog post from March ? Picture-this-concept-by-Paulina-Arcklin? 

In May we had our fist photo session with this great lady.

Sunny Spring days met us working hard in the studio on new pictures of the white wash collection. 

Facebook fans reached 1000 and we introduces quirky little S swing and XO game.

The studio became a great place to work from ...and we also ship our products around the World. 

In September faced with still growing demand for our beds we doubled the production. 

After a great Summer break, with new energy, we photographed ourselves the dark chocolate beds. 

It is such a fun to prepare the styling, ideas and shoot it all in our own studio.

In November Rafa-kids got ready for the cold winter days 

bringing beautiful WOOL blankets from Scandinavia to our collection.

We look back and see that we worked very hard to be where we are now. 

We are also  very happy to have chance to meet on our way such a great people who inspire us and help to go further. 

We would like to thank this years especially: 

 Paulina Arcklin for inspiration, support and opening our eyes for so many things. 

You are such a talented lady, and we are so lucky to work with you.

Anouk Bedeaux/ from Tafel design for support , interest and being always next door! 

It's great to have you around and we hope, we will make more things together in the future.

We would like to thank all our clients. People who trust us getting Rafa-kids beds for their kids.

There is no bigger compliment and energy we take from your comments, 

feedbacks, hearing stories of your kids, sleeping in our beds…. 

Thank you Loods5 for your support and  burrow us products for the pictures. 

Thank you so much, all blog world, which is a fantastic community of people supporting our design. 

Thank you especially our fans at :  Kenziepoo , Little Gatherer and Minor De:tales , April and May. 

We are blow away to be featured this year at:
 Swiss Miss, The Cool Hunter , Design-Milk , Milk front page , and The Style Files.

Without all of you we would be not where we are! 

THANK you so much! 

behind the scenes pictures © Paulina Arcklin | all rights reserved

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storage for kids by restorationhardware

It's not new that I'm a big fun of restorationhardware collection for kids. 

A bit strange you will say, since I like modern simplicity and scandinavian furniture the most. I have a weakness for industrial furniture too, so it's all a bit of mix, anyway. 

This simple ideas for storage, are worth showing, I think.

Restorationhardware is a company based in US , so we can just look at their good work, and get inspired. Rafa-kids is also working on new collection and storage is actually an issue we deal with at the moment too. Wait till Spring for more! 

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