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Exhibit Your Art Pad

elizabeth leach — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Do you think all your child's drawings are works of art? Then, this art pad is for you! With bright blue frames on each sheet and adhesive on the back (like a sticky note), your budding Picasso's artwork is ready for display! So, stick their masterpieces anywhere and everywhere and change them up as your collection grows.

Size: 14.5h" x 17.5"w. Purchase at MOMA for $12.00.

The Frida Khalo Doll for Your Own Little Artist

SunnyChanel — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:11:00 GMT

Over the weekend I took my two year old downtown to bask in the glory of some art and culture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The big draw this summer? The amazing and awe inspiring Frida Khalo exhibit. Although my little one was mildly delighted by the eclectic collection and the cameo’s of chimps and Chihuahuas, it really wasn’t her cup of tea. What did she really like? The gift shop. It was like each and every thing in there was made of candy and she just wanted to gobble it all up. Her favorite item? The Frida Doll by Yottoy. This unibrowed beauty is a companion piece to the delightful and colorful Frida children’s book. If you can’t make it to our MOMA to the exhibit, at least you can have her to hug. $21.

Destination Japan

elizabeth leach — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Destination Japan is a collection of products by Japanese designers sold exclusively at MOMA. Among the collection are some very interesting, beautifully crafted, and funny products for kids. These are my favorites.

Animal Object by Erect (above): The pink elephant and green polar bear are exact replicas of the live animals but only five inches high.

ABC Ring Cards by Koshiro Toda: 47, Sturdy alphabet cards with removable ring. Images hand drawn with English and Japanese spellings.

Elephant Plush by Chinatsu Ban: Plush elephant wearing undies. Apparently, animals wearing underwear is a theme for this designer.

See these and many others at MOMA.

Babel Blocks – It's Never to Early to Teach Your Kids About Diversity

SunnyChanel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:49:00 GMT

I love living in a city. Being exposed to the vast variety of traditions, cultures and cuisine is, in my eyes, a very fair trade for things like space, safety, and clean air that non-urban areas provide. But whether you’re raising a city kid, country bumpkin, or surbanite, all our children should be educated about the diversity of cultures that exist in our ever shrinking planet.

Meet Moishe, Nafisa, Mary, Chen and Jose. The Babel Blocks represent a wide array of races, religions and cultures that is the melting pot that is New York City. These figures were designed by Constantin Boym and Laurene Leon Boym and were featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. The five painted wood block characters were based on real living and breathing New Yorkers and each of them have their own MySpace page (natch!) so you can really get to know them. $70 for the set.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Let the Muff Doll Keep You Warm.

SunnyChanel — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:48:00 GMT

Yes, spring is on the way, but you wouldn’t know it by the brisk winter breeze that still chills to the bone. On our morning walks, I bundle up my daughter as if we’re taking a stroll in the freezing tundra. The only thing exposed is about six inches of her face and her delicate little hands. I think I’ll keep her eyes unobstructed for seeing and her nose and mouth free for that whole breathing thing, but I can do something about those frigid little hands (the girl simply refuses to wear mittens). Enter the Muff Doll. The Blue Gruff and Yellow Zizu are soft brightly colored creatures that double as warming muffs for little hands. Fashionable and functional, man I love an object that multi-tasks. Available from the MOMA Store ($20 each).

Babel Blocks For Multi-Culti Crew

Sarah Verdone — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:28:00 GMT

Meet Moishe, Nafisa, Mary, Chen, and Jose, a rainbow coalition of bockheads celebrating New York's diversity. So cool, they even have their own MySpace pages! Babel Blocks are the creation of Constantin Boym and Laurene Leon, industrial designers known for pushing the boundaries between art and design. Next month the 6" figures will make their museum debut in the MoMA exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind. Note: the packaging says Not Intended for Children, but I think that has more to do with the price tag than the product. $75 at boym. Even if you're not buying, check out their videos on youtube.

Big Deal: Plush Reversible Cat-Duck at MOMA

Erin Behan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:25:00 GMT

I'm a sucker for anything animal-related that sparks kids' imaginations, so it's no surprise that this reversible toy (now it's a cat, now it's a duck, now it's a cat again) gets my irresponsible internet shopping buttons going. Bonus points: It's made in Berlin--what a cool mom/dad you are buying toys made by uber-hipsters in Berlin! But, best of all, it's on sale at the MOMA store for $69.95 (down from $95). While you're wasting the last minutes of your work day, be sure to check out all of MOMA's toys on sale.

Fun With Organization? It Is Possible with Movella's Coat Rack from MoMA

Erin Behan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:41:00 GMT

It's hard enough to convince myself to hang my coat up, much less a child for whom putting things directly on the floor is second-nature. Enter this ingenious coat rack from Movella that doubles as a kind of game. Kids can move the pegs anywhere along the kitty-shaped track, and the pegs are strong enough to hold kids' coats and clothes. Ages 3 and up. It's $55 at the MoMA store. Might be just the perfect antidote to the "where do we put all these new Christmas clothes?" question.

Droolworthy: Eames Elephant Chair

chrisjordan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:01:00 GMT

I love this chair. I would definitely buy one for my child if I had an extra $2007 laying around. It is a 2007 anniversary chair so of course it would cost $2007. It actually took me a few moment to figure out the price of the chair. I kept wondering why they were telling me the year, "I know it is 2007, but what is the price?'

But maybe you have $2007 and want to buy your child a unique present with it. Or maybe you just want the little pachyderm perch to use a sculptural decoration.

Originally designed as a child's chair, the Eames plywood elephant is more like an inviting sculpture and a child's toy.

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles Eames, Vitra is introducing a limited anniversary edition of the Eames Plywood Elephant, a legendary furniture sculpture that was designed in 1945 but never produced for general distribution and sale. This is a limited edition chair, only 100 of the stained red and 100 of the natural maple will be produced.

For the more frugal, I use that term loosely, among us, you can also buy a miniature reproduction of this unique elephant chair at the MoMA Store for $185. That seems like a bargain now, doesn't it?