FRENCH DESIGNER GUILLAUME BOUVET INVENTS THE 'AZ DESK', A DESK THAT YOUR KIDS NEVER OUTGROW

Kids grow. Their belongings do not. Enter the AZ desk.

Kids grow. Their belongings do not. Which sucks for parents who could be spending dough on a hot new car college fund but instead have to buy new shoes, bedroom furniture, and the like every time their offspring sprouts a few inches.

AZ desk concept from guillaume bouvet on Vimeo.

Enter the AZ desk. Designed by Lyon-based Guillaume Bouvet, it includes a chair and writing surface that get taller as your child morphs from a shrimpy toddler to a full-blown adult. Even the writing surface “grows up,” converting from a kiddie-friendly chalkboard into an ergonomic table that could pass for something at mom or dad’s office.

Clever, right? Parents only need to buy one desk in 18 years, which means more money for, uh... college! Unfortunately, AZ is just a prototype. But Bouvet tells Co.Design that he plans to put the desk into production next year. We'll keep you updated.

Attracted to work with his own hands and with curiosity to discover the world, Guillaume Bouvet embarks on the ‘Tour de France’ of the Compagnons du Devoir at the age of 17. To become a craftsman, a cabinet maker.

Drawing his inspirations from travelling, from Scandinavian design culture and the incontrovertible book of Raymond Loewy « la laideur se vend mal », Guillaume Bouvet makes his first exploits as product designer at the side of Gilles Damon from Damon Design.

In close contact with the professionals who he discovers in books and visits in their workshops he confirms his desire for the conception of wooden furniture, ergonomic and adjustable. His special interest lays with flexible furniture for the young. From these encounters, his new ideas and building on his solid ‘savoir-faire’ develops “AZ Desk”, un new desk for kids growing up. It is going to be presented at the Exposition Internationale de Design, the DMY-Berlin in June 2011.

COMMENTARY:   The beauty of the AZ desk is its simplicity, transformability and functionality. Less is more.  Solves the problem of kids outgrowing their desks.

Courtesy of an article dated July 22, 2011 appearing in Fast Company Design

 

 

Comments

[Ross]

Where can we buy it from in the Uk?

[Marta-Tienda bebe]

I love it!

[Victoria-Tienda bebé]

A desk that lasts for ever!!
The material is really tough, so parents don't have to worry about buy another one for their children..

Nice design!

Victoria

[Marta-Ropa Original Bebes]

Beautiful, perfect, amazing! I love this desk. My son have in a room one table with chair, and a board on the wall, but i need something like that for a better usage of space. Where can I buy it?
Marta

[Faye Acklin]

Wow! That's simply amazing! Kids can really use that until they grow up, since it has an adjustable feature. It must be very durable, though. It should last for a long time. Parents would really wanna buy their children these kinds of stuff to motivate them to study. Same goes as they get old. That can be used in their office space at home or outside. ;)

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its right that drawing his inspirations from travelling.