Recycled carton glasses made by Romanian trigger fashion frenzy in Berlin
Their inventor, Cantemir Gheorghiu (known as Cante), is a graphic design graduate born in Romania who has lived in Germany since childhood.
He has already set up an online shop, together with a friend, to sell the glasses. They sell for prices between EUR 0.9 and EUR 4. Visit the online shop here.
Cantemir has created the glasses out of a joke, worn a pair in a club, where a girl gave him her cocktail for this first pair, he told Deutsche Welle.
The raw material he uses to produce the glasses is recycled carton, the type of material thrown away by printing houses - so the production costs are quite low.