1600 PENCILS for one BENCH?

The Pencil Bench: Boex 3D Creative Solutions designed this award winning, quirky bench from a single conversation to see if they could incorporate an everyday office object into a piece of furniture. The seat is made up of 1600 pencils which are individually sprung. Each pencil can be removed and used. Interesting, though is this invention "intelligent" or just "unqiue" for what the idea was set out to convey? I think it's just unique.