Playful Rooms, Not Too Childish

Many families with young children face similar decorating problems, like how to create multigenerational rooms that serve more than one purpose and how (and where) to store toys. Cookie Living, a show house sponsored by Cookie magazine, addresses these and other issues in a three-bedroom duplex apartment at Riverhouse, the Battery Park City condominium designed by Polshek Partnership, Ismael Leyva and the Rockwell Group. On display are examples of toys and child-friendly design elements that won’t clash with modern décor, including a monkey, left, by Kay Bojesen, and a play pit full of wooden balls, a hanging bassinet and shelves held up by birch branches in a nursery, top, by KOKO Architecture + Design. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 26, at 2 River Terrace (North End Avenue); information: cookieliving.com.

By MARIANNE ROHRLICH

Published: October 15, 2008 NYT