To be parent is a crazy story.

Everything began the day when we decided to have a baby, I took out the champagne. I did want this baby and I was ready, I was strong and confident. Boosted with love (and with the soft lack of concern of ignorance), thus, we wanted a baby !

To be invested, that I was !

For my part, so much invested, that you couldn’t tell, between my wife and I, which of the two was pregnant ! I lived the pregnancy as a doting father, putting on kilos at the same time as the future mother ! I had furious cravings for strawberries too.

And the day of the birth, I was Pierre, this male dad, but then bereft in front of the monitoring bipbip, feeling useless facing the extremely long labor of delivery in the middle of the night ! Next time, I promise, I take my tablet !

I was not a perfect husband, obviously I wouldn’t be a perfect father, but as I was not able to give birth to a child, I decided to give birth to what he or she will need.

Thereby, I decided to build on my experience in design furniture to offer my child the best of the travel-beds, the top of the latest car seats, the high tech stroller that folds and lays out more easily than a Quechua tent, anyway, when I created Abitare Kids in 1996, I was going to become the boss of childcare: offering the best to the flesh of my flesh by simplifying as much as possible our parents’ life.

3 babies later, 20 years have passed, I’m still not this dad but I had to interpret the role of princess and I’ve been an expert in stain removing of all sorts, a Kinder Surprise builder, an adventurer specialised in sandpit.

20 years to observe, to select, to invest me to find the best products for our children and 20 years to develop the secret wish to launch my own collections.

My children grew old but the passion remained. In 2016, me and my team were happy and proud to give birth to our new baby: the by A.K. collection and its full baby’s bedroom.

20 years of thinking around a simple question: how to offer the best to the children while softening the life of their parents ?

Because being a parent is a crazy story !