Off the wall

Do you fill your life with possessions? Is your home packed with expensive designer furniture? Is Gordon Gekko your role model? If so, then designers Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira would probably refer to you as a slave to materialism. And to prove their point, they have created the Sapore Dei Mobili (above and right; www.saporedeimobili.com): a kitchen gadget that looks like an old-fashioned jaffle iron. However, instead of churning out baked-bean toasties, this little jobbie creates Portuguese egg-based pastries in the shape of designer chairs, lounge chairs, credenzas and accessories. The designers want to remind us of the over-crowded furniture market and our insatiable appetite for "digesting" more and more stuff. The irony that they themselves have produced yet another unnecessary product is beside the point. So get baking, eat your miniature living room and watch Wall Street. Greed is good.