Miami's temple to modern baby design is Genius Jones, a store owned by Daniel Kron and his wife, Geane Brito, with two locations. The Lincoln Road shop sells mostly clothing, but the new shop in the Design District, next to NiBa Home, is an airy, polished space where parents can buy a Mini Mies chair in black as well as a mobile camera for monitoring just what Junior is up to.

The kid-friendly store, which also offers small versions of classics like Rietveld's iconic Red and Blue and Zig Zag chairs, allows parents the opportunity to try out the cribs, sheets and changing tables on display. Kron and Brito, parents of two toddlers, are exuberant advocates of bold furniture for mini-people.

"For a long time people were treating kids like princes and princesses," Kron said. "Now parents want to be more relaxed. We cater to customers with modern tastes. Most don't want to be encumbered with frills in the nursery." (Kron, himself the child of New York design guru Joan Kron, was raised with furniture by Eames, Saarinenn, Jens Risom and Vladimir Kagan. "If we still had all that furniture today, we'd have the greatest museum, because a lot of those pieces were custom made," he said.)

Genius Jones offers David Netto's collection of cribs and changing tables. The Loft changing table, part of the Netto Collection, has a hidden compartment to keep the look uncluttered. After the baby is older, the changing table can be converted to a flat counter space. Kron can attest to several parents who have converted the changing table into a bar. Presumably, they would need it.

Maricarmen Martinez, the principal of Upstairs Studio, an architecture firm whose projects include the retal space for Genius Jones's Design District Store, the Pawn Shop Lounge and private homes, wanted a bedroom for her son, Jackson, to blend seamlessly into her stylish Coconut Grove home, which she shares with her husband, Neal McAliley.

"I wanted a place that reflected our idea about design" she said. "We have a clean and contemporary house with midcentury furniture; we have a passion for strong and clean lines." Martinez and her husband started out with a Calder-esque mobile to hang above the crib and a Saarinen Womb chair. Then they went to Genius Jones for the Netto Collection

"While it appealed to me aesthetically as an architect, it was also functional," she said.