Earth Laughs in Flowers

If you thought Tupperware was only about keeping food fresh, then you're sadly mistaken.

In 1962 the Floralier, a happy confluence of plastic and necessity was born.

Measuring 20cm high, 19cm wide and 30cm long, the Floralier straddles that time in history between the days women took pride in such feminine accomplishments of actually making arrangements for flowers and today when we expect the arranging to be ready done by the florist who's done a course at TAFE. Or whereever.

The Floralier - a white three-tiered confection of moulded festoons and of doubious neoclassical parentage - means you can actually pretend you know what you're doing when you stick that purple iris next to the white roses and pink azaleas in time ready for the mother-in-law's white glove inspection.


Alas they've fallen out of favour, despite trendy attempts to revive them.

But those stalwarts at Tupperware still stand behind the lifetime guarantee and still have replacement parts available.

Still not impressed?

Never mind, you can always turn that Floralier into a robot. Seriously.

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"