Butter Stool

Made by: Design By Them
Price: $265.00

Australian design duo Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson started their Sydney-based studio Design By Them as a means to bring new and innovative products to the market at home and abroad. Their latest introduction is the Butter Stool, a small seat constructed almost completely from recycled milk containers (and made of 100% post-consumer recycled content). Arriving as a single flat piece for easy hand folding-and-building, it's also available in white, black, grey, beige, blue, green, red & orange.

(note:price listed is Australian dollars)

More info: designbythem.com

Comments
- Interesting--but at the price a very expensive way to recycle. Compare this stool, for example, to an inverted plastic crate, or a plastic chair that can be purchased for $6.99US. If this really costs this much to manufacture with a reasonable profit margin, then the design has failed as too costly; if it costs much less but is priced for it's cool, buzz or cache factors, it smacks of excess--especially in a world where the money spent on one of these would feed a sub-Saharan African family for several months.
  
  Walter Wright 09/16/2009
- flat pack is cool. so are things that keep plastic out of landfills.
  
  Leigh Spencer 09/24/2009
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