Dining Room in a Box

If a picture is worth a
thousand words then
here are three
thousand worth.

Made in Norway and
designed by Alet and
Dag Igland, the
principals of
Igland Design and
creators of, among
other things, the
Alet skateboard chair
that caused a big
kerfuffle when I
featured it here on
January 1.

They call their
latest creation the
Mealbox but I
like my name better.

From the website:

Japanese-style
dining-table
with chairs
that can all
be packed
in a box.

Birch plywood
reinforced with
carbon fiber.

Neoprene rubber
seat padding.

Table doubles
as a coffee table.

Assembled: 40cm x
68cm x 77–233cm

Boxed: 43cm x
68cm x 77cm

You know you want it.

You'll have to contact
the designers —
iglanddesign@yahoo.no
and ask, "how much?"

Tell them bookofjoe
sent you and see
what happens.

[via Erik Hatcher]