Cardboard furniture Cardboard furniture Cardboard furniture is a furniture designed to be made from corrugated fiberboard, heavy paperboard, or fiber tubes. There are several different types of cardboard furniture. Although people have lived on and around cardboard for as long as it has existed, it was probably first introduced to the design world by Frank Gehry (b. 1929). The line, which is still made and sold by Vitra, consists of modern chairs and tables. Made with hidden screws and fiberboard edging, the tables are said to hold thousands of pounds. The "Wiggle Chair," which has won many design awards and has been
Egg-and-spoon race Egg-and-spoon race An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day, alongside other events such as the sack race and the three-legged race. The earliest recorded usage in the "Oxford English Dictionary" is in an article of 8 September 1894 featured in "The Daily News": "the gentlemen had a turn in the egg-and-spoon race, in which the competitors had to punt with one hand