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TARU Design

By Capree on Jun 09, 2009 under Tags: ,

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I am in love with these quirky wooden toys from TARU Design! Choose from 3 designs available in bocotte, cocobolo, wenge, zebrawood, or wild cherry.  

About:
TARU is a small Montreal workshop that designs, conceives and builds wooden art toys. Each toy is unique and hand-made from different wood essences. I am especially attentive to the materials and fabrication of my toys, in order to offer refined and quality objects. The sensual aspect of my figurines is evoked by rounded angles and silky texture. Their aesthetic simplicity and kind faces charm children and adults alike.
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After fifteen years of work in the field of illustration and cartooning/graphic novels, I only recently started to create small sculptures/art toys. My love for wood – a living, tactile material – as well as the birth of my first child motivated me to go from drawing to the making of tri-dimensional wooden figurines. Toys have always inspired me; they are precious tools that help us build our imagination.

Handmade wooden art toys from TARU Design: $30 – $45.

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Capree, a photographer by training and a design blogger by passion, was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Peoria, Arizona. She spent a great deal of her youth going to museums and reading through her father’s art and design books.

  • Doug

    These toys are NOT meant for kids under three, yet at first glance you’d think they were for babies to play with, not older ones. Very deceptive and therefore dangerous.

  • http://capree.blogspot.com CapreeK

    Doug – You are right, these toys are not for children under three. It says that right on the product page. Along with that, I highly doubt that the intent was to deceive people into buying them for their babies. The only danger is the parent who doesn’t read the description. Besides, I would probably classify these more as art toys with a greater appeal to adult collectors.

  • Doug

    Are you kidding me CapreeK? The information is not listed on each product page, only the main shop page, and it’s in a dense paragraph that I think a lot of people would miss.

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