Boling for New Zealand
By Gena Tuffery,
Here’s something you’ll never see at a Tupperware party. While it functions as a fruit bowl, the Bol is not to be confused with one of those boring things that passively waits for an apple to arrive. Rather, the Bol’s 15 prongs stand to attention, before splaying out to form a platter when a piece of fruit comes knocking.
The interactive fruit bowl is the fruition of a design by Unitec design grad Chris Metcalfe. Given the brief ‘on the table or on the move’, Metcalfe decided to do both: creating a “centrepiece that is also a conversation piece”. The Bol is stocked here by Essenze and Eon and, after being exhibited at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, will soon be holding the Big Apples too.
Metcalfe is obviously a go-global kind of grad. The World Crutch, designed with classmates Greg Holdsworth and Darrin Eades-Smith, was a 2006 Dyson Product Design Awards finalist and co-winner of the Student Products category at last year’s BeST Design Awards. The injection-moulded handles are designed to fit onto a bamboo stick, providing a $3 walking aid for the developing world (see ‘Poor Fortune’, page 38).
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