Built to be outgrown slowly.

18 mm birch. Four seat heights. Fits at two, still fits at ten.Children's furniture that grows in steps, not in bin bags. Same chair, same table, one hex key, a Sunday afternoon every couple of years.

Order for a two-year-old

01 · Four heights

One chair, eight years.

26 cm

seat height · knees at ninety degrees

26 · age 232 · age 438 · age 646 · age 9

26 cmAge 2 · first chair

32 cmAge 4 · one Sunday

38 cmAge 6 · homework

46 cmAge 9 · a real chair

Twenty-six centimetres, age two.Feet flat, knees square, elbows on the table. The height a chair should be and almost never is. The legs are drilled for the next three.

A small orange wooden chair throwing a long shadow across a floor

02 · The build

What it's made of.

seat heights, drilled into every leg. Twenty-six to forty-six centimetres.

18 mm

birch ply, thirteen layers, sanded edges, no veneer to peel.

hex key, taped under the seat. The only tool it ever needs.

10 yr

the first chair we sold is still in use. By the third child. It's been repainted twice.

Pink and mint children's chairs stacked against a concrete wall

Outgrown slowly, not thrown out.

A child's chair usually lasts eighteen months and then goes to the tip. Ours changes height four times, gets sanded and painted at least once, and ends up with somebody else's child. That's the design brief.

Pieces

Three pieces. One key.

A chair, a table, a bench. Every leg drilled for four heights. Everything flat-packs back down if you move.

Chair · 26–46 cm · 18 mm birchThe chairFour heights, curved back, feet you can't tip

Wide stance, no tip-back. Ships in one box with the key taped under the seat and a card that says which holes are which age.

£120 · six colours

Table · 46–66 cm · 60 × 90The tableFour heights, radiused corners, crayon-proof top

Matches the chair, height for height. The top is oiled, not lacquered, so it can be sanded when the felt-tip wins.

£240

Bench · 26–46 cm · 90 cmThe benchSeats two, then one, then a plant

For the second child, or the friend. Same holes, same key. Ends up in the hall with shoes under it.

£160

Adjusting

How to go up a size.

A Sunday afternoon, a hex key, and a child who wants to help. Twenty minutes if they don't.

A simple pale wooden child's chair against a white wall

Measure the childFloor to the back of the knee, shoes off. That number, minus two, is the seat height you want.

Turn it overThe key is taped under the seat. It has been since the box. If it's gone, any 5 mm hex will do.

Four bolts, up one holeEach leg has four holes. Move all four bolts up one. Don't do two legs and stop for lunch.

The table, same dayChair up, table up. A child at a table that's too low writes with their nose.

Sand, paint, or don'tThe old hole shows. Some people fill it, some paint the whole thing, some leave the holes as a record. All fine.

Order

Order for a two-year-old.

Or a four, six, or nine-year-old. Tell us the age and we'll set the bolts before it ships, so the first Sunday is just opening the box. Six colours, or plain birch and a tin of paint.

Order for a two-year-old