Nocera Superiore | Pop-up Furniture

What used to be a recy­cling plant has turned into a design fur­ni­ture com­pany, call­ing in design­ers and cre­ative minds from all over the country.

Sabox Green have given a whole new mean­ing to the words ‘Green Card’. Old paper is col­lected, recy­cled, re-distributed and re-used in the same region for zero-miles paper and cardboard.

Just con­sider that in order to pro­duce a ton of paper pro­duced from vir­gin cel­lu­lose you need 15 trees, 440 000 litres of water and 7 600 kWh. Sabox sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing gets the same end result with 0 (zero) trees, 1 800 liters of water and 2 700 kWh.

“If you are not think­ing green, you are not thinking”

–Sabox Green blog

Then they started trans­form­ing their prod­uct into extremely clever (and damn cool) fur­ni­ture and design objects. The DIY fur­ni­ture, deliv­ered in a kit and assem­bled on site, is amaz­ing. The chair, for exam­ple, is a lot more solid than it looks and really com­fort­able — I tried it myself!  It weighs around 2 kilos and sup­ports up to 300. Assem­bly takes around 20 min­utes and is done with­out glue, nails or screws.

Canny busi­ness prac­tice and the trend for green design is tak­ing the fur­ni­ture all over the world — from last year’s Venice Bien­nale to Eataly in NYC.  The Formaperta brand includes every­thing from pic­nic boxes to pop-up shop fittings.

Just need the idea.
Hats off to Vito Francese and his team!

Sabox Srl
Nocera Supe­ri­ore (SA)
+39 081 931711