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SIBIs - Beautiful Designer Rockers and Ride-Ons
The perfect companion to the LIKEaBIKE range, these stunning German-made products combine sculptural design, robust construction and 'must-have' good looks.
Made from a combination of solid ash, birch ply, steel and EVA plastic, the range includes ride-ons, rockers, pushchairs, wheelbarrows and an 'über-chic' dolls house!
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All You need to know about SIBIs and Sirch the people that make them.
About The Company
Sirch has developed in the last thirty years from the craft traditions of coachbuilding to a modern industrial enterprise whose manufacturing processes focus on the production of a range of wooden goods. These include basic packaging goods such as palettes and chests, sports goods such as toboggans, furniture and our range of SIBI wooden toys.
Location
Based in southern Germany's Alpine foothills, the company currently employs a workforce of about fifty on a production site - owned by the company - of around 10,000 square metres. They process about 14,000 cubic metres of wooden raw materials each year.
Their space-age production facility was designed in 1999 by the architects Baumschlager & Eberle from the Vorarlberg region. It combines a traditional design concept with radical construction methods and features time and again in the international press.
Product Design
Their design ethos stems from empathy with the elemental, with simplicity and with tradition. This approach governs the work of Wolfgang Sirch and Christoph Bitzer and is unmistakable in the designs they produce together. The great majority of new developments take place in the factory itself using the materials and processes to hand. All Sirch products are of the highest quality and maintain a high commitment to traditional craft techniques.
SIBIs
The product line which came into being in 2000 owes its name to the two designers SIrch and BItzer: their initials forming the basis of this simple but memorable brand name. They rejected the mostly static, practical but ugly, design and construction of most wooden toys currently available They favoured a design concept based on powerful aesthetic principles - the kind of toys that would look good even in the most chic, modern house, beautiful enough to leave out, not tidy away. The two children's ride-ons Max and Flix represented the first moves in this direction, followed by further models in a classic collection including rocking horses, a doll's pushchair, a new take on the traditional baby walker, and a wheelbarrow. The miniature house 'Villa SIBI' was created as the foundation stone in the theme of architectural models for play and would also look good on the boardroom sideboard of any architectural practice.
All goods have been tested for children's use by the German technical safety authority Tüv and the well-respected consumer association 'Spiel-gut' have awarded their recognition to most of the models in the SIBI range.
The People
Wolfgang Sirch and Christoph Bitzer were both born in 1964 and grew up together in Memmingen, Southern Germany. Wolfgang went on to study interior design at the Fachhochschule, Rosenheim and Christoph is an accomplished sculptor. They have been working together in the area of product design since 1994.
Prizes & Recognition
New Talent Prize - Swiss Furniture Trade 1995
LBS Design Prize, Stuttgart 1994
The 'Space & Objects' Design Prize, Düsseldorf 1996
Nominated for the German Design Prize for Wooden Toys 2000/2002
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