BRITAX

Baby Capsule

Name of Manufacturer

1984

Every Australian under the age of 30 was required by law to be taken home from hospital in a baby capsule invented in Melbourne. Commissioned by the inventor, Robert Pataki and Phillip Slattery designed the world’s first baby capsule in the Caulfield studio of Robert Pataki Design. The Safe-n-Sound Baby Capsule won an Australian Design Award and the Prince Phillip Prize for Industrial Design in 1985. Baby capsules are now produced all over the world and in July 2013 the heir to the British thrown, Prince George, went home safely from hospital in a Britax baby capsule. Robert Pataki is a Hall of Fame member of the Design Institute of Australia.

Photo credit: Courtesy of Ian Wong Collection.