Core77 - Blog • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:36 p.m.

As all parents know, children rapidly outgrow both clothing and furniture. In the 1970s, Luigi Colani designed this plywood Tobifant furniture set, which could grow in height along with the child.

Colani designed it to not only be flatpacked, but to be utterly easy to assemble. The joinery consists of simple wedged tenons.

The set went into production in the late 1970s, by West German children's furniture brand Kinderlübke. Today you can still find surviving examples on vintage reseller sites.

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