Cardboard Kid Chairs, Anyone?

Rip + Tatter Cardboard Chair

Bet your Jollibee and McDonalds won't be having booster kid chairs like this anytime soon.  

The Rip + Tatter cardboard chairs (by furniture designer Pete Olyer), made from hammered out non-toxic, completely-recyclable industrial cardboard.  Who said kids can't be eco-friendly too?

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And now for something personal and boring.

When we were kids my dad took my sister and I to a factory that made Monobloc chairs, back when Monobloc was not yet a byword.  Okay, they might have simply been plastic kiddie chairs, but I was 8, give me a break.

Anyway, Daddy bought us four kiddie chairs, with laminated cartoon drawings on the lap.  Four chairs--one for us each, and two more to seat our cousin-friends, because 2 kiddie chairs just for us two would have been selfish, and not fun at all.  For a table, we had a wooden folding one, painted dark classic brown, a la picnic style.

I don't know where those shrimpy chairs are now, and what the drawings on them looked like (over time, the laminated drawings tended to warp).  I forgot how the factory looked like too.  But I remember the countless tea parties and birthday feasts we conducted right on that table and those plastic chairs.

We had a stingy Ilocano dad; we were the type of kids who didn't go to malls that often; instead we went straight to the factory, where it all began.  Not many kids had that.

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Wired had also featured a DIY cardboard kid chair product, touting it as a chair without packaging, or a packaging without a chair.