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...levee system fail? The Corps's system suffered from faulty design that was based on outdated scientific data. The network of canals and levees, built piecemeal over 40 years, was constructed to withstand relatively weak hurricanes, not the Katrina-size monsters that scientists had more recently warned...
Kron and his wife Geane Brito started their retail business as frustrated new parents who, like many of their design-obsessed customers, could not find well-designed products for their children. "We had kids a bit later, so we had money to spend," says Brito. "But the field is dominated by plastic and plywood...
That's changing. As the U.S. retail market for so-called infant, toddler and preschooler (ITP) products grows--sales of ITP home furnishings were up 5.2%, to more than $8 billion, from 2004 to 2005--and high-design products like the Bugaboo stroller sell for three times the average price of such common purchases, big-name designers are suddenly paying serious attention to child's play...
...popular introduction at the ICFF, for example, came from renowned product designer Yves Behar, who was hired by a small, San Francisco-- based company called Fleurville to create a cool high chair. The result is the Calla chair, a pistil-shape foam-and-aluminum piece that will retail for a cool $925 and, like the Bugaboo, will come in customized colors. Similarly, Philippe Starck has applied his eye to strollers, portable high chairs and diaper bags for McLaren, the popular British stroller brand. Designers like David Netto have found their niche giving such nursery staples as cribs and changing tables...
...Modern design may only represent 5% of the children's-furniture market," says Steve Granville, a co-founder of Fleurville. "But it's a very influential segment of the market." He predicts that the big companies will soon move in with their own designer products...