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Who, growing up, didn’t want a bench made entirely out of 1,600 pink pencils? Thankfully, Boex 3D Creative Solutions went ahead and developed exactly that. Its name isn’t too imaginative—Pencil Bench—but it was borne out of a silly, “wouldn’t it be, like, great to make a piece of furniture out of everyday objects?”It would, and it is. For $2,450 even.

CrunchGear » Archive » The Pencil Bench office furniture: 1,600 pencils, 1 bench


Goodness gracious folks.

I sat browsing my RSS feeds, and I was beginning to think that nothing would strike me as funny enough to be worth blogging. Then I came across this pink wonder of invention.

The folks over at Boex 3D Creative Solutions call this monstrosity "Pencil Bench", which really doesn't make a lot of sense to me... I just really don't understand why you would call it that. Perhaps in Europe, where a game played with your feet is called football I could understand calling a bench made up of 1,600 fully removable and usable pencils a "Pencil Bench", but here in America I find it quite inappropriate. It grates against the norm, and so, like all unpleasant things, I will ignore it.

Now it falls on us, friends, to name this fusion of art and bench. But what name fits? Well this is a name made for Americans, who are generally accepted to be large. And those that use this bench will be placing their rears on 1,600 erasers.... oh the implications of that...

Let's call it Garlpit.

We are Americans after all.