This design studio has transformed simple hangers into delicious wooden toys for children

Sometimes it takes very little to transform even the most banal of the objects into something extraordinary. Let’s take the hellfor example: tools that we use daily to hang and organize shirts, trousers and clothes. An object that, at first glance, seems destined for a single function, purely practical, and that nobody imagines that he can reuse in other ways. Yet the hangers hide great (and invisible) creative potential.

It proves it The latest project of the French design studiowhich during the event Maker Faire 2025held from 13 to 15 June to EuraTechnologies (Lille), invited the public – from children to adults, from amateurs to expert designers – to experiment with wooden hells, stimulating their creativity to transform them into splendid toys.

The workshop took place in stand Leroy Merlinin collaboration with the study, and gave birth to an activity marked by intelligent reuse, do it yourself and a joyful pedagogy.

It is not the first time that Aequo.designfounded by Tim Defleur And Arthur Lenglinreveals the hidden potential of the objects produced in series. Indeed, this is its main mission. If the construction materials had been protagonists in 2024, this year it was the turn of Schiar of Leroy Merlin of Leroy Merlin.

With some cuts, a little assembly and the help of explanatory and animators on the spot, the participants created dinosaurs, planes, birds and many other toys with a minimalist and accessible design.

What makes this project very special, in addition to its creative and inclusive soul, is his ecological connotation. In fact, it is part of a new vision of creation, circular, local and responsible. An approach that, in addition to reducing costs, opens up to infinite creative possibilities, denying the belief that extraordinary ideas cannot be born from simple and common objects.