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ÅRSRINGEN

Play. Sit. Stand. Store. Repeat.

Årsringen is a companion that grows with a child during their formative years. Lifting them closer to the world by enabling play, imitation, and creativity through flexibility of function and form. As years pass, it evolves into a cherished, enduring object of functionality well beyond childhood. Focusing on the objects ‘prolongation of life’ instead of ‘end of life’, its durable material and construction allow the object to be later stripped back to its essence and passed on to another child ready to grow.

Project info

Kim McCleary

mccleary [dot] kimberly [at] gmail [dot] com (Email) / Instagram

2024

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Earth to Earth

Two wooden modules shaped as an S
child playing with two wooden modules in different ways, as storage, seating or surface