>…. but cool is forever.

Or.

Take 2 design students with a brilliant idea, a box measuring 120*80*90 cm and 8 minutes and you’ve got everything you need for a nomadic existence.

A bed, a desk and stool, shelves, a wardrobe with drawers and a couple of stools for visitors.

All in a standardised (Euro pallet) format with stowage space for bits and pieces. Move it between any 2 points in Germany for about €80

Marcel Krings and Sebastian Mühlhäuser, students at the Cologne International School of Design, designed Casulo – Portugese for “cocoon” – as their dissertation project.

And promptly won the Abraham & David Roentgen Award 2007.

They were on SWR, our regional TV channel last night, haven’t a clue what it’s going to cost when it goes into production (because they’re still looking for manufacturing and marketing partners) and don’t realise how HUGE it’s going to be.

The queue starts here.