A high chair is the piece of baby gear with the longest lifespan in your house — you’ll use it for at least three years, sometimes five. Buy poorly and you’ll be cleaning food out of crevices forever. Buy well and the chair becomes part of family dinner. Here are our team’s picks, all available on Amazon AU and Amazon US.
Things that actually matter
- Wipe-clean surfaces — with no fabric or padded crevices. The cheapest high chair is the one you’ll throw out at month four when fabric padding has absorbed three weeks of yoghurt.
- 5-point harness, not 3-point. Babies will wriggle out of 3-point harnesses. By 9 months it’s a daily Houdini act.
- Removable, dishwasher-safe tray. Or at minimum a tray with no food-trapping ridges.
- Stable footprint. A wobbly chair under a 14 kg toddler banging fists is a fall risk. Look for a wide, weighted base.
- Convertibility. A chair that grows with the child to age 5 (Stokke Tripp Trapp style) costs more upfront but works out cheaper than buying two chairs.
- Folds and stores — if you live in an apartment, a fold-flat high chair is non-negotiable.
Best forever-chair: Stokke Tripp Trapp
The Tripp Trapp is the most-recommended high chair on the planet for a reason — it adjusts from a high chair (with the Newborn or Baby Set accessory) right through to a regular chair an adult can sit on. Solid wood, no fabric, the seat and footrest slide on a continuous track so the child’s posture stays right at every height. Resale value is excellent — you can sell a 5-year-old Tripp Trapp on Marketplace for two-thirds of retail.
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Best modern: Lalo The Chair
The Lalo Chair is the Tripp Trapp’s main 2026 competitor — same convert-from-newborn-to-adult concept, but with a wider seat, a footrest that slides without tools, and modern colourways. We’d pick it over the Tripp Trapp if you have a wider toddler or want the chair to fit a contemporary kitchen rather than a Scandi one.
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Best budget: IKEA Antilop
For roughly a tenth of the Tripp Trapp’s price, the IKEA Antilop is what most Australian and US parents use as the “second” or “guest” high chair, and what plenty use as the only high chair through to age 3. Three-piece moulded plastic, no fabric, hose it down in the shower in 30 seconds. The trade-offs: no recline for very young babies, no footrest, no growth adjustability. But for the price, it’s untouchable.
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Best fold-flat: Inglesina Fast Table Chair
Not technically a high chair — the Inglesina Fast clamps directly onto an adult dining table. Folds into a flat 30 cm pouch, weighs under 2 kg, holds up to 16 kg. The way our team would feed a toddler at restaurants, weekends at family, or in any rental house with no high chair. Not a daily-driver, but a brilliant complement to a real chair.
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Best multi-mode: Graco Blossom 6-in-1
The Graco Blossom converts between six configurations: infant high chair, toddler high chair, infant booster, toddler booster, two stand-alone child chairs (yes, two — for siblings or playdates). The mode count is a marketing flex, but the real value is in the second-child use case — you can run two kids off the same frame. Wipe-clean PVC seat, removable tray, machine-washable insert.
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Safety notes
- Always use the harness. “Just for a quick snack” is how every high-chair fall happens.
- Don’t position the chair near a benchtop or wall. Toddlers push off with their feet; you’d be amazed how far a high chair can travel.
- Check stability monthly. Wood chairs loosen at the screws over time. Plastic chairs can develop hairline fractures.
- Stop using the high chair as soon as the child can climb in or out unassisted (usually 2.5–3 years for most kids). Move to a booster or kid-height chair.
What we’d skip
- Heavily padded fabric high chairs. The padding absorbs food no matter how careful you are.
- 3-point harness chairs. Babies escape them by 9 months.
- Vintage hand-me-down chairs. Modern safety standards (AS/NZS 4684, ASTM F404) are stricter than older chairs — particularly around base width and harness design.
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