After more than two years of development in collaboration with experts in education, childhood and movement development, and design, Stapelstein® was born in 2018. This created a new toy category for free active play.

Growing up in a family of educators, founder and designer Stephan Schenk sought a way to enable more movement for children. The initial idea was a playfully adjustable, dynamic stool. But when Stephan showed the prototypes to the children, he quickly noticed that they used the elements far beyond his original intention.

Instead of just sitting on them, they built towers, created obstacle courses, sorted colours, and let their imagination run wild. The children experimented tirelessly and invented new, creative ways to move with and on the elements.