So today I'm going to be talking about cribs. Or bassinets. Or moses baskets (which is really gruesome when you think about it - I mean why was moses in the basket in the first place?).
Ok, no more sidetracking. Today we're going to display some of the more gorgeous, designer, modern, trendy cribs out there on the market.
BTW, this all started really early this morning, and IT WAS ALL Y's FAULT! I mean, if he hadn't told me to look up some obscure dutch designer who designed a beautiful crib (which Y diplomatically told me I could either buy for a few hundred euro or he could build it himself Ha Ha), I wouldn't have spent the last 3 hours looking up all these objet d'arts.
So here is the starting point for this whole debacle:
The cool thing about this Malofancon Barchetta one is it rocks in all directions. How cool is that? On the con side, doesn't it look a bit like Noah's Ark?
But then I went on to bigger (price wise) and better (I think) things:
The Leander hanging cradle from Denmark which has won design prizes and I have secretly coveted since even before the Tsunami.
Next up:
The knoppa cradle from sweden. why is it that all the cool cribs come from Scandinavia? I can think of several geopolitical, cultural and anthropological answers to that question but I'll leave that to a more serious minded post and carry on with my delve into the minutae of cribs and cradles.
Ha! Finally a non scandinavian crib. This one actually comes from New Zealand based Cariboo. Hmmm, I was under the impression they just let the babies there grow up with the sheep. No, seriously now, New Zealand design has progressed amazingly. At the Milan Salone last year we saw some exceptional examples of kiwi design, and this is a good representative - clean lines, functional, organic (duh!).
This little Japanese gem is so many things. Similar to the stokke crib (which I am not going to talk about here since it's too well known...), it's a regular crib that can turn into a rocker and also a bed for toddlers.
The (can't quite pronounce it) Phidibus crib from Germany based Philio.
And finally, the Eclipse cradle which is still in prototyping phases - but it isn't it unique?
And, I know, I know I'll end up hiring a crib from one of the regular places (which is what most people I know in Israel do), since why spend so much money and energy on something that you will only use for probably less than six months?
But they are to-drool for. And I am.
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