CUBI series

Designer: Frederic Boucher

Material: CUBI 12 – Ash/Wenge
CUBI 18 – Limba/Am. Walnut
CUBI 25 – Mahogany/Zebrano
CUBI 24 – Limba, Am. Walnut, Acacia

Frederic Boucher wrote about it:
“I designed this series about ten years ago. They are packing puzzles in 3x3x3 cubic boxes, hence the name CUBI. Very few were produced at the time (a few dozen copies, mainly sold in Japan), and PELIKAN did me a great honor by agreeing to produce their version of some of the models in the series! It’s somewhat the precursor of the MINIMA series; I hope you’ll enjoy them too!”

Kevin Sadler wrote about it:
“There seems to be no end to Frederic Boucher’s talents! Not only do we have the incredible Minima series, the Jammed series (two of which I still haven’t managed to solve) as well as numerous tray packing puzzles, he also has created a series of cubic packing puzzles here that have an enormous challenge to them due to very irregularly shaped pieces, blocks attached to the inside of the boxes, as well as rotational moves. Effectively, these seem to be the combination of a Turning Interlocking Cube (TIC) at the same time as a packing puzzle. This series has been fabulously recreated by Pelikan using beautifully contrasting woods.”