Brightly toned children's furniture can look pretty cute in a kid's room, but it is often outgrown quickly and made of materials, like plastic, that don't lend themselves to environmentally friendly lifestyles. Enter the Elia Mini Chair, a seat composed entirely of recyclable cardboard that can hold up to 200 pounds and fold flat to store away, the miniaturized version of the chair that architect and engineer Michael Gross created for his own use years ago. Packaged along with stickers and solid colour sheets for decoration purposes, the Mini Chair encourages children's creativity by providing an essentially blank canvas that they can make their own. Gross, along with wife Rey Tabarrok, plans to create a table and bench with the same materials, showing how strong, in the vein of Frank Gehry and others, ordinary and inexpensive materials can prove themselves to be. Find them all online, along with instructional videos, at www.eliafun.com .