Repel the Rain with the Pizza Umbrella by Inedible Art! It's Going To Rain This Weekend...Aren't You Hungry for it?
You know we love pizza. We have not stopped to count the number of times we've featured pizza on this site but you can be assured it would probably number in the hundreds. You also know we love it in Ireland and the UK and you know a nice day is when the sky is white there (and if you haven't been, that's their way of saying it rains a lot.) Inedible Art has given us an opportunity to put two things we love together: pizza and umbrellas. If you can't eat it, wear it and by using an umbrella, you are wearing it, in effect. Many people in New York can be boring with their black umbrellas which are the kiss of death if you check it at an event-how do you really know you're getting yours back...but if you have the fabulous pizza umbrella everyone will know it is yours. We think they should even come monogrammed and with the items you want to order on your pizza, but we don't think they are there yet. A fun idea! Check it out.
InedibleArt designs and manufactures a
line of fun and functional products that look strikingly like real food.
The
idea began when founder Barbara Fellman created the first soft-sculptured pizza
pillow prototype in 1978, initially as a joke, while still an art student at
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. It
wasn't under years later in 1992 that the humorous idea turned serious and
evolved into a complete line of handmade PiZZArtTM products, including pillows in
small, medium and large sizes; pot holders in the shape of slices; hot pads in
the form of a round, personal size pizza; and jewelry items, including pins,
earrings and ornaments. Because
the products were extremely labor intensive, with each pizza topping
individually quilted, making them by hand proved unsustainable as a business.
The first mass-produced items were manufactured in 1997 in Bangladesh. This first
product line, the “Pepperoni Supreme,” consisted of a slice pot holder and
“personal pan” round hot pad, each with toppings of pepperoni, mushrooms, green
peppers and olives. The initial inventory of 6,000 quickly sold out. The
second production run, made in China in 2003, included the standard Pepperoni
Supreme and introduced a new topping style: the “Veggie Gourmet,” with upscale
toppings of fresh tomato, broccoli, mushrooms and black olives. The products
made their debut at The Gourmet Products show in San Francisco in 2003, winning
the “Best in Aisle” award and acquiring numerous gourmet kitchen store and gift
shop customers throughout the USA and abroad. The
Pizza Umbrella, created earlier this year, is a lightweight but sturdy umbrella
with eight “slices” for support. It also features the four popular toppings of
pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers and olives. InedibleArt products have been sold at
Whole Foods, Amen Wardy and hundreds of gourmet kitchen and specialty gift
shops around the USA. Numerous pizza parlors have also used PiZZArt as
promotional items.
InedibleArt believes in giving back to the
community and aims to set a new trend against hunger. The company donates $1.00
from each sale to the Capital Area Food Bank, providing 5 meals for the hungry.
The idea is that customers who have the discretionary income to afford items
that look like food should subsidize people who cannot afford real food. When
you buy InedibleArt, you have hunger covered!!
