Charlie Crane is a Paris-based publisher of baby and children’s furniture. Founded in2013 by Thomas Lépine, their ambition was to create beautiful and stylish furniture that infuses adult codes into the child’s world and blurs the boundaries of rooms in our current interiors. With Charlie Crane creations, parents are proud to display their children’s furniture throughout the house. The baby rocker is integrated into the living room decoration; the highchair matches the dining room table and chairs and the cot becomes a work of art! Charlie Crane has a real publishing approach.

This new French generation, which carries with it both the tradition of technical excellence – particularly that of the French pioneers of the 1950s (Prouvé, Perriand, Hitier…) – but also this openness towards multiple foreign influences. In particular the Scandinavian design of the 1950s and 1960s and the recent Vegetal Design.

The first Charlie Crane products – the LEVO deckchair and the NOGA changing table –were created by two designers trained at the Boule school: Erick Demeyer and Steven Leprizé,

Charlie Crane favours noble and natural materials such as curved wood, which allows complex shapes to be sculpted and round objects to be offered. An ideal sweetness for children. This technique also has the advantage of being much more accurate than assembling wooden parts, which makes it possible to manufacture parts of excellent quality at affordable costs. We will also mention metal, and in particular tubing, which again makes it possible to shape complex and rounded shapes.

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After the warmth of the mother’s womb, the cradle is the place where the baby will spend most of his time during the first months of his life; the place where he will gradually wake up to the world. Charlie Crane therefore designed the KUMI as both a reassuring cocoon and a space open to the outside world.

The design of the KUMI combines tradition and modernity. It retains the millenary lateral swing, a delicate movement that helps babies fall asleep, while sketching minimalist and contemporary lines, thanks in particular to the laces that surround it, which gives it both lightness and safety.