{"id":74393,"date":"2025-12-07T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74393\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:51:29","slug":"ikea-debuts-childrens-collection-for-play-in-the-whole-home-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74393\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA debuts children&#8217;s collection for &#8220;play in the whole home&#8221; in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish furniture company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/ikea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IKEA<\/a> has launched a children&#8217;s furniture and decor collection at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/miami-art-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami art week<\/a> installation, informed by play studies the company conducted following the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>IKEA created the temporary IKEA Open House Miami installation in a vacant retail space on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, to launch its Grejsimojs children&#8217;s collection, which consists of 33 objects designed by creatives such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carldesign.se\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Ojertsam<\/a> and Marta Krupi\u0144ska.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2277482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ikea-miami-installastion-2025_dezeen_2364_col_2-852x1278.jpg\" alt=\"Pink fluffy ikea bed\" width=\"1576\" height=\"2364\"  \/>IKEA created an installation to showcase its Grejsimojs children&#8217;s decor collection during Miami art week 2025<\/p>\n<p>Designed in-house, the installation consists of a central display of Grejsimojs objects, and four individual installations that branch off around it, each highlighting one particular product.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a dog-shaped light by Krupi\u0144ska was displayed in an oversized bright-blue dog house, while a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/cat\/mammut-series-11779\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mammut chair<\/a> redesigned with a furry covering by Ojerstam was displayed on the deck of a baby pink pool as a nod to Miami.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2277485 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ikea-miami-installastion-2025_dezeen_2364_col_5-852x568.jpg\" alt=\"IKEA children's collection Miami\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1577\"  \/>The collection showcases IKEA&#8217;s aim to extend play throughout the home<\/p>\n<p>The display was further organised into overarching themes of the collection that denoted a certain type of play \u2013 such as compete, imagine and create.<\/p>\n<p>These types of play were derived from the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikea.com\/global\/en\/our-business\/reports\/play-report-2024-240611\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ikea Play Report<\/a>, a semiannual internal study that surveys the play habits of children.<\/p>\n<p>This most recent Play Study was conducted shortly after the pandemic and looked particularly at the effects on young families.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2277481 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ikea-miami-installastion-2025_dezeen_2364_col_0-852x568.jpg\" alt=\"Dog-shaped light\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1577\"  \/>A dog-shaped light by Marta Krupi\u0144ska was among the objects on display<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really saw that after the pandemic that there is a lot of stress in people&#8217;s lives, especially in family life, and people feel much more worried,&#8221; IKEA of Sweden product design manager Anna Granath told Dezeen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nowadays, there&#8217;s so much worry in the children&#8217;s lives, so parents and children want more play in their lives, and they want more meaningful play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2277487 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ikea-miami-installastion-2025_dezeen_2364_col_7-852x568.jpg\" alt=\"IKEA miami art week installation\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1577\"  \/>A central feature showed all the furniture together, while smaller installations highlighted them individually<\/p>\n<p>Objects such as a bright yellow cartoonish giraffe lamp and a cactus-shaped hanger and storage bin by Krupi\u0144ska are also meant to be displayed around the house, rather than being cleaned up and tucked away at night.<\/p>\n<p>This is so that play objects remain easily accessible, according to the brand.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/12\/05\/design-miami-2025-best-furniture-exhibitions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/design-miami-2025_dezeen_2364_sq-191x191.jpg\" class=\"excludeLightbox wp-post-image\" alt=\"Superh\" decoding=\"async\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"  \/><\/p>\n<p> Arquitectonica furniture and Batman chairs among highlights at Design Miami 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to make play be in the whole home all the time,&#8221; said Granath. &#8220;And for it to be allowed to be in the living room for the parents, to make it look good when the children have gone to bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Based on] the Play Report, we thought \u2013 what if we make a collection where we could make play more accessible and be a part of home furnishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2277489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ikea-miami-installastion-2025_dezeen_2364_col_9-852x568.jpg\" alt=\"Ikea installation Miami\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1577\"  \/>The furniture was designed based on studies IKEA conducted after the Covid-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other objects in the Grejsimojs collection include a small wood table and chair with orange legs designed by Wiebke Braasch and a duck-shaped rocking horse by Ellen Hallstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Grejsimojs Miami pop-up will be on display through the 6 December weekend, and available online starting in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other installations and events during this year&#8217;s Miami art week include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/12\/02\/es-devlin-miami-art-week-library-of-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a rotating library by Es Devlin<\/a> installed on the beach, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/12\/05\/design-miami-2025-best-furniture-exhibitions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collectible furniture fair Design Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The photography is courtesy of IKEA.<\/p>\n<p>IKEA Open House Miami was on display from 4-6 December at 1108 Lincoln Road, Miami. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/eventsguide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dezeen Events Guide<\/a>\u00a0for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish furniture company IKEA has launched a children&#8217;s furniture and decor collection at a Miami art week installation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42304,42303,24394,42302,123,36615,125,124,7201,14261,42305,1617],"class_list":["post-74393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-childrens-furniture","tag-designs-for-children","tag-ikea","tag-installations","tag-miami","tag-miami-art-week","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-pink","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}