kinder MODERN founder Lora Appleton joins Design Milk for DMTV Milkshake sharing insight into designing for children.

Few people understand design for children better than Lora Appleton, the founder of kinder MODERN, a contemporary and vintage design gallery and design studio that makes and showcases work for children. In turn, few people understand Appleton better than her son, whom she credits as her primary muse. In this week?s Milkshake, we asked her how he?s taught her new ways of looking at design: ?A few years in, when my son was able to walk around and look at things and notice material, I was really fascinated by how much the built environment was an influence on him,? she says. ?If he went into a new place, where he’d never seen a type of material on the wall, he would directly go right for it ? and there was this real sense of curiosity that seems obvious with kids, but it was really pointed, their thinking. And then years later, he was able to recall that material, notice that it was made into a chair by one of my designers, and make that correlation. And I thought that was really fascinating ? the memory, the tactileness of thinking, all of that really connects with kids in a way that before being a mom, I didn’t really understand.? ?"""""""?"""""""""""""""""""""
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