BugabooRich Kids
Bugaboo x Stella McCartney: a pushchair that borrows from the Falabella
Three Bugaboo pushchairs in Tobacco Brown, with the chain of Stella McCartney’s Falabella bag woven into the canopy.
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StokkeFamily Travel
Stokke YOYO⁵: the travel pushchair that folds with one hand
The new Stokke YOYO⁵ folds with one hand and, at 52 by 45 by 22 centimetres, is built for the overhead locker.
BonpointGifts & Celebrations
Bonpoint x MoMA: Monet’s water lilies in the children’s wardrobe
Bonpoint and MoMA turn Claude Monet’s Water Lilies into a limited capsule for children, smocked by hand and printed on organic cotton.
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Boarding school at eleven or thirteen: the question every family asks and how to answer it
The English send their children away at thirteen, the Swiss take them at any age, the Americans wait until fourteen. Behind the traditions is a simpler question: is this child ready, and is this the right house?
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Forty-five schools with the fees.
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SwitzerlandInstitut Le Rosey
Rolle and Gstaad
United KingdomEton College
Windsor, Berkshire
SwitzerlandInstitut auf dem Rosenberg
St. Gallen
United KingdomWycombe Abbey
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
GermanySchule Schloss Salem
Salem, Lake Constance
United StatesPhillips Exeter Academy
Exeter, New Hampshire
SwitzerlandAiglon College
Villars-sur-Ollon
United KingdomSevenoaks School
Sevenoaks, Kent
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