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Habitat has a series they call Very Important Products For Kids -- toys, furniture and accessories dreamed up by celebrities and designers. This Imaginary Friend doll from Paco Rabane is a blank slate -- minus the crazy rag-doll hairdo -- and comes with 10 machine-washable ink pens so that kids can invent the companion of their daydreams...

What gives this sweet girl's room its vintage feel and undeniable charm? Just a few simple touches -- like a gauzy canopy, a whimsical suspension light and a pretty illuminated butterfly posing delicately by the bedside...

Miniséri's cute French school bags are decorated by illustrators and designers, like this limited edition silk screen image of the famous French cartoon character Le Petit Nicholas. The 100% cotton school bag with René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé's famous character can be carried by hand, over the shoulder or as a backpack. More styles after the jump...

La maison est en carton (The Cardboard House) is an online site that specializes in inexpensive limited edition signed artwork for children's rooms by children's book artists and illustrators....

"The Pregnant Chair was designed as an expression of the beautiful physical and emotional relationship that exists between a mother and her child," says designer Trent Jansen, whose chair-within-a-chair will be produced by Dutch company Moooi. "The two are both completely reliant on each other emotionally, developing a truly interconnected relationship that is evident even in their physicality..."

This airplane sticker isn't pictured in a child's room, but what better place to put it, to help launch your children's dreams of all the places they will go...

So your little one wants a cat or a dog and you don't, or can't, or whatever, and a stuffed animal surrogate just won't do. Meet Jacques the Jack Russell Terrier. This lifesize trompe l'oeil pet is just one of the lifelike creatures that may help you bide your time...

This interactive globe has 181 detachable velcro pieces -- national costumes, native animals and the like -- that will help teach your kids about the rest of the world. Made from cloth, the inflatable globe comes in two sizes and has a plastic interior; you can throw it in the washing machine (but be sure to take the velcro accessories off first!)...

Picnic season is eluding us, but here's a kid-sized picnic table that can make outdoor lunches fun, or be brought indoors and used as a place to draw or play when the mercury drops....

Swedish company Little Red Stuga's charming poufs for kids include the Dream Bag, above, which unfolds into a lotus flower in yellow, pink or turquoise; or the knitted pouf Kebnekaise (after the jump), named after the highest mountain in Sweden...

In the ever-specialized world of decorating options for little ones, here comes vinyl flooring made especially for kids...

Kid's chairs come in all shapes and sizes, but there's something extra-appealing about a mini club chair that allows kids to sink in and relax in a chair designed to fit them while reading or hanging out with the grown-ups. This luxuriously expensive mini leather club chair from Poltrona Frau is two times smaller than an adult's size and comes in reddish or white. But you can find club chairs for all budgets...

This double-sided porcelain nursing ring emblazoned with "left" and "right" was designed by Ysabelle Podguszer as a chic, grown-up memory aid for breast-feeding women. It's part of her Poup'ké collection of double-duty jewelry/baby accessories for the new mother who has everything...

There's nothing girly or old-fashioned about this cardboard house and matching garage from French company Carton Chic. Made from 100% ecologically produced wood pulp cardboard, it's is a blank slate to let your kid's own decorating sense run wild...