The Intelligent High Chair
Built by hand to last a decade. It learns what they love and tells you what to serve next.
The idea
Three meals a day for ten years, and nobody tells you if it is going well. Sonaa weighs every bite, learns your child's patterns, and turns them into plain answers: what to serve, what to skip, and when a hard week is coming.
What it knows
A food camera, weighing wells and a sensing frame sit inside ash and leather you would keep for ten years. Nothing to log, no screen on the chair.
Forecasts the hard days, spots patterns and tells you what to serve next.
Built for ten yearsFrom first bite to age ten. If a child breaks it, we replace it.
Made to orderEvery wood, leather, metal and engraving, chosen by your family.
Sona means gold
If it can be guessed, we measure it. If it can break, we build it better.
In Hindi, gold is what a family gives a newborn: chosen for them, marked with their name, kept for life.
Chapter I · The Chair
Solid ash, vegetable-tanned leather and a titanium heart. One frame takes three seats, so the chair your child first eats in is the one they eat in at ten.
Grows with them
0 to 6 months. Reclined, at the family table from the first week.
6 to 18 months. Five-point harness and the Sense tray.
18 months to 10 years. Belt and post come off at three; the footplate lowers as they grow.
The details
Durability
Every piece is drop-tested onto stone before it leaves the workshop. If a child ever breaks a Sonaa piece, we replace it. For life.
1,000
drops onto stone, zero cracks
10
years, one chair
Certified before it is beautiful
Built to ASTM F404 and EN 14988, with every seat certified on the frame. The Click mount only locks when fully seated.
Chapter II · How it works
Five kinds of sensing are hidden inside the chair. Together they log every meal without a parent typing a word.
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2
3
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01 · Capture
02 · Understand
03 · Guide
The camera names each food and the wells weigh it. Grams, calories and nutrients, logged automatically.
The frame tracks their weight at every meal, plotted against WHO growth charts.
A guided first-foods plan, likes and refusals, and one-tap reaction notes.
The Vessel's dock warms to body temperature, logs ounces and alerts when a bottle passes its safe window.
Buckle and tilt sensors alert your phone if the harness opens or the chair rocks.
Nanny and grandparents share one log, and you get a note after every meal.
Privacy by design
Chapter III · The App
The chair weighs the food and the child. The app turns it into three answers parents check daily. Nothing to log.
One number for today, like a sleep score.
Weighed at every meal, plotted on WHO percentiles.
Spots gaps across the week and says what to serve.
Illustrative data
The Appetite Forecast
After a few weeks, Sonaa knows your child's rhythm: how appetite dips before molars, after a short nap or in a growth spurt. It forecasts the fortnight ahead and tells you what to do about it.
Ava's appetite · last week and the next two
Molars likely. On days like this she eats about a third less. Serve the cold mango she finished twice on Monday.
Her best window this fortnight to try something new. Broccoli, try number five.
Pasta at 9 of the last 14 dinners. Swap in lentils twice this week to lift iron.
Illustrative data · Forecasts are patterns, not medical predictions
Chapter IV · The Collection
Titanium that survives the floor, a bottle that knows when it was last warmed, and a lunch kit finished like a watch. Every piece engraved with their name.
Tableware · $2,200
Porcelain cannot survive a toddler. Grade 2 titanium can: lighter than steel, unbreakable, with no metallic taste.
The bottle · $2,600
A titanium bottle with a hand-engraved gold sleeve, and a smart dock that warms, weighs and times every feed.
Away from home · $1,700
A real meal, not a pouch. Built like a Japanese bento, finished like a watch, and logged in the app like any meal at home.
The Valise · +$1,000 with the chair
Hand saddle-stitched box calf that opens flat, with a fitted home for every piece and a titanium dock that clicks level onto a stroller.
Opens flat
Docks level
At the café
The Travel Set · $2,700
Every piece engraved or debossed with their name.
Chapter V · Commission
Like a Rolls-Royce, no two Sonaa chairs are alike. You sit with our designers, choose every wood, leather, metal, colour and engraving, and approve the render before one artisan builds it for your child.
20+
woodsFrom pale ash and walnut to burr elm and Macassar ebony
100+
leathersCalf, nappa and suede, plus crocodile, python and ostrich
8
metals and finishesTitanium, sterling, rose and yellow gold, black and champagne
Any
colourMatched to a swatch, a nursery wall or a family crest
Start your palette
Pick a starting point from the launch library. Your designer brings the full swatch trunk to the consultation.
Exotic leathers are used only where a child cannot mouth or grip: the seat back, the tray underside and the Valise.
The commission journey
Nothing ships from a warehouse. Every chair is commissioned, then built by one artisan.
0
Week
Private, at home or in the atelier. We learn the family, the room and the child.
1–2
Weeks
A swatch trunk arrives by hand. You approve a 3D render and every engraving.
3–11
Weeks
One artisan makes it start to finish, with a private film of the making.
12
Week
White-glove install, Sense set up, and the first meal served together.
∞
For life
Seat swaps as they grow, annual service, and updates that make it smarter.
Chapter VI · Reserve
Every chair starts with a conversation. Prices below are where commissions begin; your designer quotes the final piece after the consultation.
$7,500
$10,200
$22,000
$50,000+
The Founding Edition
100
The first hundred Sonaa chairs carry a numbered titanium plate and a lifetime of priority service.
Your request is with the atelier. We reply within one business day to arrange your consultation.
Twelve weeks from consultation to delivery for library materials. Exotic leathers and rare woods can add four to eight weeks, and your designer will tell you at the first meeting.
Yes. The $500 reservation is fully refundable until you approve your 3D render.
We replace it, for life. Every piece is drop-tested onto stone before it leaves the workshop.
Yes, one food-facing camera that looks down at the tray to identify what was served and what was left. Images are processed on the chair and only the food log is kept. Your family owns the data.
From newborn to age ten. One frame takes three seats: the Cradle, the Feeder and the Grow Seat.
The Founding Edition launches in New York, with trunk shows to follow in London, Dubai and Mumbai. Every delivery is installed by hand.
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The Chair