You know those little cardboard cup-condoms they slip around your cappucino in Starbucks? These are just like those — only crafted from real fur. I'd totally buy 'em if they were fake. only crafted from fake fur.
Link to fur-cozy details (Thanks, Susannah).
Update: BB reader John Rambow of the Fodors blog says, "It seems to me that that fur Starbucks holder is a riff on one of the famous objects of surrealism, Meret Oppenheim's creepy-but-I'm-not-sure-why fur tea service, Breakfast in Fur." Link, and another link.
BB reader Christopher Hyson says, "Actually, there is a local firm in the Rochester NY area that has been making these, and the fur is synthetic!" Link
Reader Bryce says, "I was really excited to see the post about the furcozies on boing boing. they were designed by Shannyn Rivera, who graduated from my school (cranbrook academy of art, in michigan) last year. The grad book, published at the end of each school year, features one or two pieces to represent each artist, and the furcozie is hers! The Javawear thing that a reader referred you to looks like a knock-off."
Update 2: Shannyn Rivera tells Boing Boing:
The images on your blog was from our company website, XS Couture xscouture.com or furcozie.com, owned by myself and my design partner, Wil Ayers, who originally designed the Furcozie TM (or what you would call the furry coffee sleeve). It was designed in 2002 as a Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate project and introduced at the Milan Design show in April of 2003. The Furcozie TM is made of synthetic faux fur and leather trim. There was an article in Dwell that told everyone that it was real fur- which lead everyone to believe it was real fur, but it has NEVER been real fur that we used. It's just really great looking high quality faux fur.
We are in the process of manufacturing a variety of Furcozies TM (in different faux fur colors, trims and and faux fur patterns) to sell this year. As for the JavaWear product, we have no relationship whatsoever to the company or to the design of their product. It seems that their product came out after ours.
As for the JavaWear product, we have no relationship whatsoever to the company or to the design of their product. It seems that their product came out after ours.
