Monday, July 25, 2011

Cardboard Highchair!



When I was a child card board boxes offered hours of entertainment and fascination.  I once turned a box that housed a new stove into a space ship, then a pirate ship, and finally at days end, it became a post office.  Not once did i think of turning it into a functional highchair!  

I have seen this crazy chair floating around the web and in a few industry mags for a year or two, but have yet to see it in person.  I love its simplicity, and its reuse, reduce, recycle pathos.  It is the brain child  of Turko-Australian designer/visionary Betul Medakbas . She realized what the world needed was more flatpack cardboard children's furniture, and so, with the help of noted Australian cardboard designer Anthony Dunn, Belkiz was born.  

I have a strong feeling that I have not seen one for sale yet due to all the safety hoops this chair will have to jump through.   Its own website -Belkiz.com , displays and informs us beautifully about the chair and its functions and sustainability, but does not offer any place to purchase it.  We will have to wait a little longer for the world to embrace Cardboard baby furniture.

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