Rocking sheep.

These have been a long time obsession at my work they are rockers made with real sheep skins and are obscenely expensive and amazing. I WANT ONE. Definitely a product that pleases both an excitable child (they go crazy in the shop for these) and nostalgic big people like me.

Architektur fur Kinder

Its a shame my German is so rusty now as this website: http://www.architekturfuerkinder.ch/ seems to have some amazing research and information on it... I think I'm going to be spending a long time on Google translate. It also has a ready made book list of books I haven't heard of but Amazon doesn't seem to stock any at a reasonable price so am going to have to do a search of library's in London..

Isamu Noguchi

1941 design for a playground that was never built in Hyde Park. Noguchi struggled with safety issues as many officials said that his designs were not safe enough for children to play freely on.

Ive been having a look at the 20th century sculpture Isamu Noguchi. A friend from work recommended I look at him as he designed alot of playgrounds and had a very specific view of what children would want from them.

"In other words, the playground, instead of telling the child what to do (swing here, climb there) becomes a place for endless exploration, of endless opportunity for changing play.''