Culture

10\11\2014
Written by Daan Rombaut



The World’s Largest Collection Of Pizza Boxes

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Online delivery service Hungry House has teamed up with Scott Weiner, author of best seller ‘Viva La Pizza’ and proprietor of the world’s largest collection of pizza boxes, to curate a unique exhibition that showcases 100 of the most bizarre pizza boxes from all over the planet. The New York based enthusiast has collected over 750 pieces and has now brought a small slice of his collection to East London. The exhibition has systematically been classified into categories such as pizza box portraiture, scenery, hi-tech, interactive designs, and presumed ‘classics’. Weiner started his collection in 2008 when he came across a particularly artistic pizza box in Italy. Ever since, his collection has grown to Guinness World Record size, receiving the award in 2013.

“The first box I remember saving is a Roma Foods ‘Scenes from Italy’ box. It was a ‘Volume 2’ and I was so excited by the idea of a series of boxes – it made pizza boxes seem like something that was varied and limited enough to be collecte,” Scott Wiener argues. His favourite box is the Simpsons box he found in Amsterdam: “The image on the box definitely references the Simpsons but the Bart and Homer characters are not quite right – it’s a funny attempt to avoid trademark infringement, which I just adore.”

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