Product in the picture: the Ball Chair

Our website isn’t online yet and that’s exactly why we think it would be a good thing to introduce you to one of the products we’re most proud of, the Ball Chair. When you type in 'Ball Chair' in a search engine, chances are high you will also see the 60’s classic:

Very beautiful indeed, but not our design. Unfortunately? No, because we’re very happy with ours :)

Tadaaah…

The Ball Chair is designed by Finn Stone, an Irish artist who lives in London. XLBoom manufactures the seat in recycled ABS. It’s treated with a high-gloss paint made by DuPont . See how it’s produced:

The treatment with the high-gloss paint allows you to use the Ball Chair indoors and outdoors. Look, it’s paradise:

The chair comes in many different colours. Which one is your favourite?

Although it has quite a sleek design, the Ball Chair is very comfortable. As Mr. Whiskerson here is trying to tell you:

Photo by Jonathan Lespoir

Did you know we also sell a Ball Chair especially made for kids? We bet you didn’t:) Below you can see a couple of Baby Ball Chairs next to a regular one:

Ideal for though toddlers and giggly girls and their dolls.

Now that you know almost everything there is to know about our famous Ball Chair, you can start thinking about which ones you will order as of 17^th September ;)

We’ll see you next week!

Test 1, 2, 3...

With only 4 more weeks to go, it’s high time for some things to gain momentum. The SEO process is almost finished (please Google, be kind to us:) ) and the next priority on our list was test packaging. It’s one thing to sell high quality products through a web shop, but getting them to the customer scratch free is –of course – another. 

The test carton boxes had already been delivered and today Paul from Easypack taught us how we should safely pack frames, mirrors and other breakable accessories. He provided us with a so called Pack Mate, a device with which you can make some kind of paper slings. They’re fully made of recycled paper and are very kind for nature and that’s what we find most important. How do they call that again? Right, a win-win situation:)

Now, once you’ve made the slings with the machine you can fold them how you want and put them in boxes, in a way that they protect the product you want to send.

The most important thing is that the product doesn’t break during transport, so Paul tested that extensively by throwing the parcel several times on the floor. In the parcel was a Floating Box, one of our picture frames that contain quite a lot of glass:

The whole process made us quite hopeful, as none of us heard the sound of breaking glass. When the test was finished and we opened the package, this is what came out:

Wohooo, we succeeded! No broken glass whatsoever. We will of course do more tests and send packages to several addresses abroad to make sure customers receive their parcel as it’s supposed to be.

Besides testing, writing and thinking we also like to browse the web to look for sleek design objects that would match ours or that are in a similar style. Nice design doesn’t have to be expensive and the Pearl Bookcase is a perfect example of that:

It’s available in 3 colours and is designed by Modloft, an American furniture brand. We like!

One of our top selling products is the Ball Chair and when we discovered the Espresso Maker by the Czech designer Martin Necas, we almost couldn’t believe there was an accessory that matches our somewhat futuristic chair as good as that one does. Or do you disagree?

Martin Necas has some other great designs, we also like the very sleek Washbasin Mixer Tap with its edgy contours and its ingenious tap system. A designer to keep an eye on, if you ask us.

Ok, it’s time to focus on the last bits of SEO and after that we need to brainstorm once more about all kinds of things. In the meantime we wish you loads of fun and hope to see you soon! 

And so it begins...

…almost at least, as the Big Kick Off is not until 17th September. Then all design adepts will be more than welcome to visit our brand new online store, Smart Living Objects. Right now you’ll only find a ‘Coming Soon’ page there, but we figured it would be nice to give you the link :)

Smart Living Objects offers high quality design with an austere, timeless and understandable character. If that description sounds a bit woolly to you, these pictures will definitely make it clearer:

In the online store you will find chairs, tables and other furniture, a wide range of handmade picture frames, all sorts of accessories and the Extra Large collection. For more sneak previews, you can visit our Facebook page.

The Smart Living Objects store was created by the founders of XLBoom. XLBoom sells the same products, but focuses on wholesale in large parts of Europe. Yet, the company received enthusiastic reactions from people all over the world who wanted to know where they could buy the products. Obviously there were plenty of areas where the XLBoom collection was unavailable. And so the idea arose to start with an online store in order to reach, well, basically everyone :)

We have about one month until the Big Release and that means we have to look into every detail once more and make sure we get it all right. But don’t worry, we will keep you up to date about the last developments here at Smart Living Objects.

We can already tell you this: the whole team is very much looking forward to this adventure and will enjoy every single bit. We hope you will like our products and look forward to seeing you back soon.