We all wear shoes, some more comfortable, some less. There are many types of gadgets – shoehorns out there to help us put them on, but not so many to help us take them off. Many shoes get ruined nowadays just for the sake of haste when one foot helps another to get the shoe off or we even need an extra pair of hands.

When I was a kid, I would see my grandfather coming out of the stable with his high rubber boots all covered in dung. To take them off without the need to bend down and hold them, he used a home-made wooden bootjack – called ‘a hare’.  It has been an indispensable device at any farm, but never seen in a modern home.The new design proposes use of this object also in today’s urban domestic environment.

The new version uses the same principle of design and use as the traditional bootjack – it is just adapted to the contemporary environment and lifestyle with the use of ergonomics and technology. As it is a softer reinterpretation of the rural, hard version, I called it “the shoe bunny”.