How Swede

Trust the Swedes to have the ultimate "design" toys for kids. Swedish company Playsam was founded by Carl Zedig in 1984 and is best known for its "Streamliner" car (above). It also designed a range of toys for handicapped children during the early 1980s. It's range marries pure form with pure function.

Rocking horses, whatever - put your kid on the Rocking Rabbit

Love the little paddle at the side of this yacht, it's going to make its maiden sea voyage that little bit quicker.

The Knife

No wonder magazines love Scandinavian style. Even their daily rituals are imbued with good taste. Swedes spread their butter or cod-roe laden Kalles with these traditional butter knifes that epitomise the Scandi Aesthetic. Buy one in Vavknuten

It don't matter if you're black or white

Scandinavian design company Muuto have been causing a stir in the last two years injecting the minimal Scandi-aesthetic with a bit of fun. Products such as their Norway Says lacquered "Salt and Pepper mills" and
JDS Architect’s “Crushed bowls” have become stylists staples. They have just released their hotly anticipated products for 2009 - Black and white pendant lamps by Swedish designers Mats Broberg and John Ridderstråle - also available with a green cord for those who think monochrome's already over.

In black....

Or white