One To Grow On

Nothing makes you feel older than seeing kids grow up. The neighbor's toddlers who used to run around in our building's elevators now have careers and bands. And now my friends are having babies themselves, and they grow so fast. I bought my friend Robbie a little denim top for his newborn daughter a few months back, and she's no doubt outgrown it already. So investing in design-y furniture for your infant seems like a money-losing proposition to me. But parents who worked hard to get their homes curated just so with their designer visions may find it hard to reconcile their decorating tastes with available kids' furniture, which is why I like this Ovo chair from Spanish designers Cul De Sac.

Reminiscent of an Eames shell chair but with the soft-sculpt feeling apropos for kids furniture, the Ovo chair nevertheless has a very adult look to it. It's got all the practical details - washable fabric covers, baby reins, adjustable tray and footrest - without the cutesy kids motifs, so it's furniture parents with a sense of aesthetics won't mind including in their dining rooms. But what's special about it is the removable leg extensions that allow you to shrink the high chair as the child grows, so the seat's life is a little longer than a teething period. Cleverer still is the fact that the practical detail also mimics the contrast-dipped color blocked legs that first caught my eye with with the 1994 Czech Chair, and are now making the design rounds (you know it's a popular motif when West Elm has their own version).

I rather like how it looks with the faux-dipped contrast legs, so I would mourn the fact that you lose this detail as your little rugrat abandons crawling on your around on your Flor tiles (which you cleverly chose for child-ready staining situations, natch). But hopefully, while they may eventually outgrow this chair, hopefully it will be instilled in their subconscious so that your children never outgrow good design. Via the eagle eyes at dezeen.