Green Idea: The Grass Armchair

This grass armchair featured on Treehugger is one of the coolest green ideas we've seen. It’s a self-assembled chair, including a 14-piece corrugated cardboard frame and a package of grass seeds. After finding the right spot (remember that you won't be able to move it later), filling the cardboard structure with soil, and a mere 10 days, you'll have yourself a grassy chair.

We spotted it on Ready Made, whose editors call it "an idea they wish they'd thought of," a recurring sentiment that we can totally relate to. It seems that the biggest trick is finding a place for it. If you have a yard or garden, you're in luck. For those of us that don't, we can hope for communal acceptance in our building's courtyard or backyard of our three flat. The grass armchair is available from
Purves & Purves, a furniture design shop in the UK. With such little weight to this flatpack, don't let overseas shipping costs stop you.

Comments (3)

Green only in concept. Corrugated cardboard is highly acidic and though it will dissentegrate rather quickly it leaves behind a mess of chemicals used in its creation.

A better solution would be cotton rag board. Or any recycled chemical-free material.

posted by Julian on 2006-04-19 15:58:29

I can totally see all neighborhood cats congregating in that lush grassy throne.

Holly

posted by decor8 holly on 2006-04-19 18:08:11

that would be so hard to mow...

posted by jim on 2006-04-19 18:43:26