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This modern childrens furniture has new functions appropriate to parents with busy schedules. Can your imagine this retro modern furniture next to your kids desk?

I was recently reviewing what nursery ideas were available on the internet for Danish modern furniture.

I was disappointed I didn't see any new functions in the modern childrens furniture. I found youth bedroom furniture, loft furniture, kids room storage, kids desks, that's about it. Occasionally you can see bunk beds with stairs that have a play area underneath, or an easel that you can also crawl on or under. But not much new from the child's or the parent's point of view. So I've added my own to what's becoming available as modern childrens furniture.

I thought that the "modern" style and the furniture materials being used haven't changed much from what I saw as a kid. "Modern" childrens furniture seems to mean primarily that the Scandinavian furniture I was exposed to as a child has become available to the rest of the world. The increased world trade of recent decades has made this style of modern kids furniture much more popular in the USA.

Well my father's family background is Finnish (another whole story). When I was growing up just after World War II we never had to go hungry but we certainly didn't have any extra money.

I was the third of four boys in our family. When I was very young my Dad worked as a construction carpenter and even built the house we lived in. At one point he acquired a dump truck and tried to sell coal door to door for a couple of winters. Often he was paid in barter, such as second hand furniture. He called it custom kids furniture.

The furniture we kids had was always second hand. Some of it was modern childrens furniture because it was made of some kind of laminate. A few pieces we inherited from my grandparents were of solid oak. Dad liked to tell stories about how these had been in the family for several generations now.

The cool modern furniture we admired in pictures but we never could afford was simple, usually of white birch, sturdy and very functional. Probably not too different from what you might find in Ikea, today, one of the best examples of modernist thinking.

My upbringing was semi-rural, we lived on the edge of a small town just a few minutes walk from virgin woods and streams.

Years later in college I met and married a city girl from the largest city in Latin America (Sao Paulo, Brazil). We eventually moved to Sao Paulo and lived in a high rise apartment with a cook and live in baby sitter. Our own son was the first of his generation in the family. Therefore we always had tons of family and visitors cramming into our small apartment. My wonderful wife ran a very very orderly house and much of the constant movement didn't set well with my semi-rural, quiet Scandinavian demeanor.

I remember one evening I was reading at the table after dinner and the phone rang. This was well before wireless phones so when I got up to answer it I set the book down and went into the other room. When I came back the maid had not only closed the book (losing my page) but had put it back in the book shelf. I couldn't blame her, but it was a life changing moment for me. I decided I needed some solitude, even if tropical Sao Paulo didn't have any woods or a Sauna.

Our firstborn son was still only a few months old and we hadn't moved his crib out of our bedroom. So I started a "project" in the second bedroom. Over the next few days I purchased some fine plywood and built a five foot (one and one half meter) cube with an entry hole in the top. Inside I put a chair, some bookshelves, a lamp, my typewriter and finally had my place of solitude. The mess and disorder inside were mine and mine alone. No one else could jump or climb on top and then down inside. Only once did I find the frustrated maid trying to stick the vacuum cleaner down through hole in the top.

Over the years as our family grew and we moved from place to place in Sao Paulo that old cube came with us and became some funky kids furniture for our children. It was now on its side, there were holes cut in it as stairs and who knew what all the kids did inside. Although it was not solid wood, it was a good quality plywood and endured hundreds of little feet, knees and hands. I had screwed it together solidly so it could be taken apart and moved. I've often wished we brought it with us when we moved back to the USA.

Earlier in my review of the modern unique childrens furniture I also noticed that there really isn't much change in the function of modern childrens furniture. I think furniture designers need to think more like children and see the furniture for kids rooms from their point of view, down on the floor, inside of or on top of.

Some designers have added a few kids furniture ideas to make them more accessible to children. Kids can crawl on, over or inside some of the kids unique furniture. Most of the designers still paint the furniture, so when kids actually use it the paint will wear through. Maybe this is part of the planned obsolescence for childrens furniture.

I know I couldn't have come up with the One-at-a-time Toy Cabinet concept if I didn't stop and think like a little like a child. Discussed in more detail here. I think the One-at-a-time feature is the first "modern" function introduced into modern childrens furniture in a century.

The fact that this feature also tremendously helps the parents was not on my mind. But when you think about it, anything that helps the children will almost certainly help their care-givers. This is a win-win situation at its best.

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