Even if you don’t much buy into the cute-kid thing, you’ve got to admire the bare inspiration and simplicity behind designer Peter Bristol’s Training Dresser. Very like the proverbial scratches on cave walls that presaged human language, Bristol’s instructive piece eliminates the middle man, as it were, and goes straight to the heart of the matter.

Training Dresser. Designed by Peter Bristol.

The Training Dresser is a Great Educational Tool

The drawers in Bristol’s Training Dresser don’t suggest or imply what each should contain; rather—and very like hieroglyphics—the drawers are the thing themselves. Namely, underwear, socks, shirt, and pants.

Bristol’s drawers are 9 ply ½” maple plywood, “dovetailed and finished with clear catalyzed lacquer… cut, drilled and dadoed on a CNC table router.” The upshot is a chest of drawers each in the shape of a child’s clothing—just the kind of instructive aid to learning that gets little ones out of your hair and dressing themselves in no time.

Not only is the Training Dresser fun for kids and useful for parents, it also makes a daring aesthetic statement all its own, for what bureau has swapped out the traditionally rectangular drawers for suggestive and entertaining icons? What chest embodies function more fully within the very stuff of its exterior finish? And though it may seem obvious to say so, this dual appeal makes the Training Dresser doubly appealing: “Like Dr. Seuss and Pixar,” says Bristol, “the Training Dresser is for more than one audience.”

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About the Designer: Seattle-based designer Peter Bristol never lays pen to paper, nor circular saw to bare wood, without harboring a full conviction of the meaningfulness of the concept. That is to say, he only creates products that the world seems in wont of. Another way of saying this is that Bristol aspires to “develop, evolve, and refine ideas that should exist and bring them to life in the right way.” The fruits of such labors are many and varied, as seen with the illusionistic Cut Chair, the space-saving Corner Light, and the whimsical and instructive Training Dresser.