Stylish or Tacky? The Fruit Slide

This hanging fruit basket has been making the rounds on the interwebs, and we're feeling strangely mesmerized by the design. It definitely walks the line between modern style and possible tackiness. What do you think?

It's bringing up a lot of childhood connotations - Shoots and Ladders, anyone? Gumball machines? Those marble slide sets all the cool kids had in the 80's? Mostly this makes us think "Fun! Playful! Entertaining!"

Whether it comes across as tacky or stylish probably has a lot to do on the rest of the styling in your kitchen and how the piece is displayed. We could really envision it in a light-filled kitchen with a lot of stainless steel, neutral colors, and sleek design elements. Treat it like an art piece and it becomes an art piece; treat it like a fruit basket and it will be a fruit basket.

Before you get too excited (or dismissive), you should know that this is still a design concept. In other words, the fruit slide does not yet exist in the real world. Hopefully Swedish designers Michael Andersson and Maria Axelqvist can get enough people on board with the idea to change that soon.

What's your take?

(Image: Designboom)

Comments (15)

It seems you can only pull out the bottom item - what if you want the orange and not the apple?

On top of that, I think the combined gravity/pressure on the bottom fruits will make them spoil faster - I try not to keep any additional weight on fruit if I do not need it - ever notice those at the bottom of a fruit bowl spoil faster?

yuck. not attractive and as tmdpny points out, it seems very impractical.

Looks like an interesting idea, but @tmdpny has a good point. Another is the size of the slide. Depending on the harvest, the fruit could be of very odd sizes.

I'd place this in stylish, but impractical.

I like it, but instantly thought the same thing as tmdpny re: what if I wanted the orange - however if I were to use this to only store one kind of fruit, I'd think that would work out pretty nicely!

It would look great in a breakfast place filled with oranges where they make fresh orange juice daily. Other than that impractical.

The game is called Chutes and Ladders.

I'm not quite sure what a Shoots and Ladders game would entail.

I think it looks pretty awesome and the idea is super fun but there is the "what if I don't want the fruit on the bottom?" question.In the end though I could never do it because I like my fruit cold.

I'm with those who worry about spoilage, but my concern was that fruit doesn't spoil evenly, and it's often hard to predict which individual will turn first. How gross could this be if something in the middle turned...and spread it's nasty ooze down the slide.

Eeeeewwwww.

Tacky. And impractical. Yuck.

gotta-have-gadget-du-jour! I have 100 bowls that I can use for fruit storage, why get something more? It seems like something that would inevitably go to the Goodwill pile.