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by Design Records Team

KORA – When play meets permanence

Play shouldn’t come at the planet’s expense.

KORA reimagines childhood products with a circular future in mind: a modular system crafted entirely from sustainable pine wood that doesn’t stop being useful when kids outgrow it. Instead, it converts into lasting furniture—extending its lifecycle and eliminating the throwaway culture of typical toys. Eco-Conscious & Impact-Driven toy designed by Estela Segura Castellano, from Valencia, Spain.

Kora modular toy for kids

Repairable, durable, and made from carbon-storing materials,

KORA turns conscious consumption into a tangible, beautiful reality for families with children 1–8

Kora multifunctional modular kids toy for 1 to 8

Run your hand across KORA’s surface and you’ll feel it—the subtle grain of 100% pine, warm to the touch, still carrying the faint scent of the forest it came from. This isn’t the cold, hollow plastic of disposable toys. It’s solid, breathable, alive.

Kora ride on toy for kids
Kora kids toy
Kora multifunctional toy for kids

Watch how the light catches its edges as a toddler’s climbing frame one day, then shifts to reveal a sleek shelving unit the next—just intelligent joinery that lets the object breathe and evolve. The modular pieces slot together like a grown-up puzzle, each groove and curve deliberately considered.

Kora modular furniture

Picture it in a sun-drenched corner: first as a castle, then a desk, then a plant stand—its patina deepening with every chapter. Scratches become stories.

Kora assembly kit


Kora tools
Kora Night stand

Wear becomes character. And when it finally rests in its second life, it stands not as leftover childproofing, but as permanent furniture such as night stand or tv furniture—earned, textured, and quietly beautiful. 

KORA doesn’t scream for attention. It simply stays. And in staying, it rewires how we think about objects in our homes.

Kora Tv stand

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