Adry, lightweight, easily accessible, recyclable and environmentally friendly. We are talking about the merits of cardboard, materials and trends for the realization of furniture. Yes you read correctly: chairs, armchairs, tables, bookcases, shelves, lamps and lights, CD racks and various furniture It can also be made from this material, for everyday use and with different mounting techniques.
The first to conceive and implement a cardboard furniture collection In 1972, he was the internationally renowned architect and designer: Canadian architect Frank O. Gehry. His creative research aimed at use of unusual materials and in particular ecological furniture.
Thus was born forty years ago, the «Easy Edges» furniture series, material of the poor and everyday use, a new aesthetic dimension. The masterpiece of the collection is the chair, a eco-sinuous, afeel made of corrugated cardboard, where they are stacked in layers to give a solid structure, with chipboard edges and hidden screws. The President has won numerous design awards and has been exhibited in numerous museums.
In the XNUMXs, and also later, the cardboard furniture have become very popular in France thanks to the technique of los young artisans Eric Guiomar, very different from that of Frank O. Gehry. Single, double and triple wave cardboard is used, then covered with decorative paintings of various types: from Nepalese paper, one from Lokta fiber, but it also applies to tissue paper, pigments and glues, or just a newspaper, or even waterproof coatings.
In Spain there are several courses to learn how to make cardboard furniture or the corrugated sheet metal structure. But there are also specialized companies such as A4Adesign, an Italian company that offers furniture of various types: benches, tables, loungers, chairs and original productions to show that with this ecological material interesting and very beautiful furniture can be made.