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It never ceases to surprise us that much of good, sustainable design is also deliciously fun. Take Debbie Wijskamp’s paperpulp cabinets ^[4], for instance. They are what their name implies: drawers and shelves made out of pureed paper mache ^[5]. And while I want to write sophisticated sentences with phrases like ‘materials reuse’ and ‘resource conservation,’ I just can’t help thinking about how glorious it must be, in a third-grade sort of way, to mash paper into furniture. Wijskamp’s process validates these daydreams.

You can watch as the designer churns gobs of glorious goo in a bucket, then shapes it into molds in this video ^[6]. The dried cabinet pieces fit together like a puzzle, which she then glues and caulks into a solid mass. The resulting cabinetry looks like it was made from igloos, cookies, styrofoam, rice cakes, or snow — depending on what you played with as a kid.

The stacked pulp was recently on display in Eindhoven ^[7] as part of the designhuis ^[8] exhibition “Talent 2009″ for Dutch Design Week ^[9]. That’s all well and good, but my question is: will there be paper pulp fights? I’m ready to fight other grown-up children in the name of sustainability.

+ Debbie Wijskamp ^[4]

Via Designboom ^[10]