The Thousands

Most of my ‘how cool would it be if…’ thoughts end up as ever-lasting pepperoni pizza or Internet in the shower, but Bianca Riggio and Ryan Hanrahan of Sydney-based design duo Page Thirty Three have much brighter ideas.

A quick click through their webstore suggests instant coolness: a wooden milk crate that interlocks and stacks just like a stolen Dairy Farmers. A jigsaw serving board and ceramic jigsaw plate, which can cleverly connect. Cinematic light boxes, with lettering. And a curly straw that spells out ‘Life Sucks’ while you sip.

If you look closer you’ll see that, unless it’s impossible, the objects are all made in Australia – including the lavender oil and beeswax candle that accompany the scientific essential oil burner, and the lavendar bath milk (with goats milk and cacao butter) inside the giant bath tonic tea bags. And that makes Page Thirty Three more than just a tellin’-it-like-it-is drinking straw and a good-lookin’ crate.