Apparently the good people who design furniture for Restoration Hardware do not have small children. Otherwise, they would have never designed this:
It’s a child’s industrial bunk bed, made of square stock steel. I don’t have children, but I can foresee many trips to the ER with your child who has fallen off the top bunk and landed on one of those nice sharp corners, or with the kids who were jumping on the bed and collided with a nice chunk of steel.
I think this has a very prison-industrial complex feeling to it, especially with the caged lights. 
I just do not understand what Restoration Hardware’s thinking. This children’s “industrial loft” look is such an tiny niche in the market.
Would you buy something like this for your child?
Hmmm, penitentiary chic? I do have kids and I'd be sure not to have a glass of wine before checking in on them at night, that could equal a head injury.
ReplyDeleteWe've had quite enough trips to the ER without steel-cornered bunk beds, thank you.
ReplyDeleteHow did this make it past the first design meeting much less all the way into production- My son is grown, but even I would be worried about sleeping in these beds- head injuries in the middle aged ain't nothin' to play with.
ReplyDeleteThe first one with the lethal corners is deffo a no no! The rounded corners look a little less lethal!
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I don't think Gary, current Rest H'ware CEO, has the slightest interest in children. Not the slightest.
ReplyDeleteThe first beds look like the standard issue dorm bunks I had in the 80s at UMd. Yuk! Do they come with mini prisoner orange jumpsuits, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteNo I wouldn't buy this for my children.
ReplyDeleteBy the way really loved the design you painted on your upholsted child's chair !
excuse me ie upholstered chair
ReplyDeleteThey seem lethal. Besides, have you tried to make a bunk bed? I've had them as a kid. The worst job ever!
ReplyDeleteI don't think that I would buy much from RH except lampshades and those super linen drapes....Steel furniture with the hard parts exposed--please! Have a super week-end. Mary
ReplyDeleteMan, the first setup is so dangerous. They never asked a parent about that one. I kind of like the second one. They couldn't break the bulbs. Well, they could, but at least it's a good attempt.
ReplyDeleteThe top bunk bed, with the killer corners? NO WAY. I predict lawsuits.
ReplyDeleteThe second version looks like it came straight from the set of "Oliver!" -- Edwardian orphanage chic, anyone?
Continuing the theme of "what were they thinking" for children's rooms, the Moggit Blog recently featured a nursery that was in the current on line issue of Lonny Magazine. http://www.moggit.com/2012/04/some-parents-decorate-with-sesame.html.
ReplyDeletegreat post and insight into marketing mishap. comments were particularly funny-penitentiary chic -lol
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA... Restoration Hardware is not responsible for the cost of how many times you'll be going to the hospital for stitches with your small children. OMG, what morons. lol
ReplyDeleteWe were taught not to jump on beds, but there's always that kid who will take the leap from the top bunk in the first picture and try to land on the bunk below and this layout is very tempting and probably painful. I saw the second photo more as a submarine/industrial pipe design, which I think a lot of boys might like.
ReplyDelete...the first ones are exactly like my college dorm beds from freshman year 1966...they were ugly then...and they are ugly now...
ReplyDeleteI don't have any kids, but if I did, the only way I'd buy this stuff is to furnish a spare bedroom--in the cold wing of the house--where I could threaten to send them if they didn't behave. After their dinner of cold gruel, that is.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is Gary's got a great sense of humor, even if it is a bit dark. The gray-striped carpet in the second shot reminds me both of old-school prison uniforms (bright orange nylon being too cheerful) or Pugsly's shirt from The Addams Family. Gary probably grew up looking at Charles Addams' cartoons while his playmates were reading Mad magazine. On the other hand, that could be said about me, too--but then, I'm not the one encouraging parents to decorate their kids' rooms like dungeons.
I agree, the top one is way too pointed-cornery for wee ones.
ReplyDeleteHowever... the bottom one is charming! I think kids would totally dig the playgground feel. I'd add a slide from the top bunk to the floor, just for fun.
You find the best worst stuff, I love seeing these crimes against design when I pop in. This one in particular seems a ghastly look on its own, let alone for children.
ReplyDeleteWe have no offspring, but if we did, the odds of this sort of thing being purchased are less than none. Can you have negative odds?
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I would like the second one!It's perfect for kids!
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