Bend It With Love: Flat-Pack Home & Office Products
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 08.31.07
Start with a bunch of flat sheets of aluminum, bend them "with love" and what do you have? If you're Swedish design firm "Form Us With Love," you might have a set of home and office accoutrements like the tabletop set pictured above. Aside from producing cleverly-designed, functional objects, the collection showcases the utility and efficiency of flat-pack design as you turn paper-sized aluminum sheets into stuff you can use every day. Some of their products come pre-bent, which takes some of the fun out of it, but it's still neat to think that they all started as simple, flat sheets. Now if they'd just use recycled aluminum... ::Form Us With Love via ::BoingBoing Gadgets
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Very cute and practical :)