The Soapbox Story

I’ve got a soapbox here.

The code for my soapbox was crafted in Austria by my friend Steven. Well, not just by him, but he sent it to me just last week. I’ve adapted the design of the box in CAD to suit the packing of thirty bars of soap. Handmade using the herbs grown at Trevarno garden in Cornwall. I’ve embellished its surfaces with hand drawn patterns and messages of those plants hoping to impart some of their secrets before you open the box.

I’ve also adjusted the nature of the construction. If you look very carefully at it, you’ll see that it’s been designed to suit the characteristics of the sustainably and locally grown material that I’ve cut out using a computer numerically controlled router that belongs to my furniture design friend, Aaron, just down the road.

I have made the box with great care and not only as beautiful as I can, but with the help of Mike, my engineering friend in Exeter. And I have made it as strong as possible, so you might join me standing on it. Or perhaps when we’re all scrubbed up, you could re-use it somehow. Or if it’s really not to your taste, you could deconstruct it and use the material for something else.

By the way, I just emailed the CAD data that I created to make my box to my friends in Australia and I’m really looking forward to seeing what they do with it.