Chair of the Day: Reestore
I love this new site. It’s very funny (the way it’s written – not the products). Reestore, an eco-friendly group from the UK, takes old pieces (similar to last week’s treasure from Reddish) and repurposes them. Their Annie chair is one of my favorites.
Annie is made from old shopping trolleys. That word got me going off on a language tangent. Here in the mid-west trolleys are called buggies, which I’ve always thought was really weird. Everyone who, like me, grew up in the “real world” (AKA the East Coast) knows they’re called carts.
So I have two questions for you. First, what do you call your shopping carts? Second, which Annie would you choose? The Tesco is looking awfully good to me. But that could be because Tesco is a foreign grocery store and, therefore, exotic. I don’t know if I’d like it nearly as much if it said Kroger.
7 Responses to “Chair of the Day: Reestore”
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Posted by bronxelf on March 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I call them wagons, and I’m a NYC native. Most people around here do call them carts, though.
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Posted by Jennifer at Design Hole on March 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
You guys are too funny. The Godsend comment is all too true.
I haven’t heard of wagon before. I’ll have to ask my friend, who grew up on the upper west side of NYC what she calls them.
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Posted by Bacchus on March 11th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Although there is nothing worse than when a store discontinues them. I still haven’t forgiven Safeway. Everytime we pull into the parking lot he is looking for the car carts.
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Posted by ArtShades on March 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Yes, in the UK we call them trolleys, here a buggy is a child’s pushchair and a cart conjures up wooden container on wheels (like a ‘horse and cart’).
The humour used on their site is typical English wit – used more and more by young, forward-looking companies. Good fun.
I wouldn’t choose the Tesco version – here Tesco is taking over all the little independent food stores and dominating the market. I think reestore have designed it with a little British irony! Either that or they are hoping Tesco will buy them by the thousand for their staff rooms!?
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Posted by You've Got To Be Kidding Me on March 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I would buy it if it said “Piggly Wiggly.”
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Posted by misterarthur on March 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I thought the UK word for child’s pushchair is pram. (Or am I having a Mary Poppins moment?)
I grew up calling them buggies but having lived outside the Mid-west so long we call them carts. Unless of course there is a plastic car attached to it, then it is called a godsend.