Resolving to organize this new year? Want an affordable, artful way to do it? Dutch industrial design firm Pure Nomade has come up with the Hotel box, available from Yoya Shop in NYC.
Hotel by Pure Nomade
It is not only a box, not only a piece of furniture: it's both. They come flat and their shape allows for easy and flexible stacking. Available in vivid prints and colors that contrast the interior and exterior. Better than shoe boxes, that's for sure.
We do like the idea of using them as a side table - they could hold lots of magazines in this application. -regina
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How sturdy do you think these are? This might be usable as stylish cat condos.
Something about these bugs me, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
25 smackers a pop. For cardboard boxes. Martha Stewart and Oprah will tout them in their shows and magazines while the rest of us decide to stick with our free milk crates and cinder blocks. And I can't shake the feeling that they smell like sour milk.
Why don't you just DIY and cut holes in your cereal boxes and milk cartons and stack 'em up. At least you wouldn't have wasted $25 a piece on the same cheap-looking design. And you'd get to eat the cereal! ;-)
Mmmmmmm Cap'n Crunch! :D
Monica,
These have always bugged me - as others have just said, the price of these little paper boxes, esp to put shoes in, is galling to me. It's a ripoff. For the same price as a stack of these, you could get some halfway decent storage from IKEA that would last longer and be more functional. They're also a totally inefficient use of precious space.
I am sure too, IKEA will have less pricey ideas.
And just a small note: these guys are 99 % Danish, not Dutch.
Shoe boxes would be a lot more space-efficient in a small apartment: those boxes waste a couple of inches on each side for their flaps. And I'm baffled as to why expensive cardboard would be preferable as "furniture" to IKEA's happy veneered MDF items, which at least look like furniture.
No doubt Real Simple will love it.
Garbage being peddled as artistic storage, and at $25 apiece....I wouldn't shell out 25 cents apiece for them.
My marketing/branding genius husband would say this is another example of a product that solves a problem that doesn't exist. I'd call it Emperor's New Clothes.
These look messy and flimsy to me. And the price is outrageous. Guess there's a sucker born every minute!
pppphhhhffffffttt!
How sturdy can these things be? I can't even imagine them holding up after my 9 lbs. cat leaps onto them once or twice.
They also seem as though they're not very stacker-friendly, like they'd just slip off each other--or that it would be easy to brush by and knock them all over.
From the videos, it looks like they screw together vertically and a stacking base is achieved by using a strap horizontally with those same screw holes.
I remember doing something like this when I was a kid with empty tissue boxes! I had no idea I was a designer.
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