Italian industrial designer Bruno Munari designed this radical Cubo posacenere ("Cube ashtray") around 1954: Image: Di Albertozanardo - CC BY-SA 4.0 Placing the butts inside the box was completely outside-the-box; up until that point, anything we'd call an ashtray was an open dish, with the crushed butts and ash clearly visible. Image: Di Albertozanardo - CC BY-SA 4.0 Munari explained his thinking: "I thought I'd do something that would hide the mess, because when we're at the table...
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