Furniture in a Box

Casulo is still on the drawing board – so far, there is a prototype but that is as far as the project has reached at present.

Despite this, the innovative Casulo design has already won an award from the Abraham and David Roentgen Foundation. A further recognition was awarded by the Lucky Strike Junior Design Award in 2008.

Casulo is the brainchild of two students from the Köln International School of Design in Cologne who developed the concept of the Casulo mobile living unit as their dissertation project in June 2007. Professor Axel Kufus, of the University of Arts in Berlin judged the Casulo project and was impressed by the students’ idea. Casulo is now protected by the Gebrauchsmuster patent.

This doesn’t explain what Casulo is, however. OK, well, think ‘pallet’. In fact, think of a pallet measuring just 80cm x 120cm. Then think of flat-packed furniture – enough to furnish all your requirements for everyday living. That is where the similarity ends.

Casulo is a full set of furniture which can be assembled within ten minutes without the need for tools and equally quickly disassembled and packed up like an ordinary Euro pallet of the size mentioned above. A particular feature of the Casulo concept is its strength, requiring no additional packaging for when it needs to be transported.

Another feature is that it can be easily maneuvered by two people and fulfills the requirements of the 21st century move-around society–put it on the roof rack of the family car. That, in a nutshell, is the idea behind Casulo. Visit the site to find out more about Casulo.

[ See Casulo in Action ]