Home Duvet Cover Single from DutchByDesign.com
According to DutchByDesign.com, the “Home Duvet lets you sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless person doesn’t have to!”
This high quality duvet cover features a photographic print of a cardboard box. This produces an extremely sharp image that stays flexible because the ink is printed directly in the cotton. The image will stay crisp after frequent washing. The cotton has a thread count of 144 threads per square inch, so it’s soft to the touch virtually non-iron. The duvet cover is produced in Pakistan and child labour is not used. 30% of the gross profits go to Centrepoint, the UK charity for homeless young people aged 16-25 (charity number 292411). Every night Centrepoint provides support and housing for 800 vulnerable homeless young people.~
Centrepoint hopes that the Home Duvet will have a wide appeal ranging from the fashion conscious to the socially conscious.
The sales of the duvet will help to raise vital funds for Centrepoint which will receive 30% of the profits, as it works to increase awareness of the vast numbers of young people sleeping on the streets. Clare Norton, Director of Services at Centrepoint said: “We hope that this smartly designed product will help raise awareness of the numbers of young people who do not have a safe place to call home. Our experience at Centrepoint shows that 47% of the young people coming to our services have slept rough at some point in their life.” “We are grateful to Dutch by Design for working with us in the fight against youth homelessness, whilst also raising vital funds to help Centrepoint support homeless young people.”
And if you find you can’t sleep under your cardboard cover, try snuggling with Gwen, your American Girl homeless doll.
~MadSilence
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Check out this picture from Design Milk: “This mattress cover mimics the appearance of pavement and the bed linens that mimic the appearance of cardboard pieces. The pavement and cardboard images you see on the fabric are printed directly in the cotton to ensure a sharp appearance wash after wash.“
3 Comments
November 13, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Wow a homeless doll..hmmm i dont get the concept behind it..unless all proceeds of that doll are going to help the homeless…..not a big fan of the NY Post….zman sends
November 19, 2009 at 5:36 am
Steve, I suppose the suppliers of these products believe at some level they are raising awareness of & sensitivity for the homeless, although I’m not sure sleeping under the duvet with your AG doll sends the proper message. As for the NY Post, not my favorite. I subscribe to the NY Times (Fri, Sat & Sun), read Newsday regularly. MSto&w
November 25, 2009 at 8:30 am
How bizarre. The duvet and mattress is kind of cool, like a toilet seat with a barbed wire design. But it’s so uncool at the same time. I wonder how people who sleep under real cardboard boxes feel about people sleeping in a really warm comfy bed with the “fashionable” design of a cardboard box? On the other hand, looking at that duvet every day would certainly remind me how lucky I am, and it’s good that a homeless charity gets 30%. Interesting.