Great Moments by Design – Ekorre Hanging Seat
After too many long days hitting refresh on me.com and clicking the Check for Updates button in iTunes last week, I felt the need to focus on things non-digital for the weekend. Enter the Ekorre Hanging Seat.
When I made a trip to Seattle last month, I took a stop at the Ikea store in Richmond. I picked up a few things for the kids, one of which is this hanging seat. This is such a well designed product, I thought I would give it a mention as a Great Moment by Design.
When your child is going to be sitting—and let’s be realistic, sitting really means swinging madly—in a device hanging from the ceiling, you want a product you can trust. The Ekorre is durable. It looks like something you might use to climb a mountain. The nylon rope is thick and the clasps used to secure the rope to the ceiling are vaguely like those which climbers use. Even the material of the seat itself is great—a mixture seemingly of cloth and canvas that gives you a feeling of sturdiness.
I have no worries when the kids are playing on here—no matter how hard they might be pushing one another. And the level of enjoyment they get from this toy shows that it really is a great design.
