Comments on: JULIAN LWIN BIODEGRADABLE BIOTUBE BENCH

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Wed, 30 May 2007 21:45:46 +0000

[...] plant your own chair. The one pictured above is the Terra Grass Armchair Kit. There is also a Grass Bench Kit that is pretty easy to [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:50:24 +0000

OK, firstly i would like to say that this piece of ahem ‘furniture’ isn’t exactly what i would call furniture. i mean, how can someone think that by throwing a few rubes of cardboard together with 2 straps and some plants coming out of it will actually appeal to the public- NO WAY! im sorry to say this but i think this is a ridiculous idea, a total misconception that the creator thinks will actually help our environment? sorry bro, but think again coz noone would wanna buy that thing. Cheers.

By: James

James — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:33:53 +0000

1. sitting on wet, soggy cardboard tubes after they begin to degrade–no.
2. if it turns into a lump in the grass i can sit on–why don’t i just make a mound of dirt, plant it with what i want, and sit on it now?
3. it’s plain unimaginative.
4. the straps are surely *not* biodegradable. once the tubes get soggy, the structure will start to collapse.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:21:15 +0000

It needs pictures of the end result.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:20:54 +0000

I think the idea got lost somewhere. Imagine taking this bench, packing the tubes tightly with soil, and sitting it in a garden somewhere. The tubes sprout grass, degrade into fertilizer, and you’re left with a grass-covered soil mound that vaguely resembles a bench. You’re not sitting around on wet mailing tubes, they’re just an initial, self-removing support structure.

By: Jaggae

Jaggae — Mon, 29 May 2006 02:27:02 +0000

Looks like a bunny’s paradise! But for us to sit on as it degenerates…these cardboards look really filmsy…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 26 May 2006 21:52:16 +0000

I don’t get it. It’s cardboard tubes with grass, but no wait! It’s a biodegradable bench! For outdoors. So that you can spend money on something that will fall apart on purpose! And it’s really ugly too! Because the designers eschewed the fact that cardboard can be made into practically any shape or design so that we can all look awkward sitting on a pile of wet mailing tubes. With grass in them! Even though you are already in a garden!
(I really don�t mean to hurt anyone�s feelings, but this thing has haunted me all day, until I was forced be a bitch about it).