Origami Furniture

There is a variety of origami furniture including chairs and tables. Some are made from cardboard while others are made with metal and folded origami-style. Check it out:

Cardboard chairs are surprisingly sturdy. They are light weight, shipped flat, and then assembled on-site. Instructions for kids' cardboard furniture are free to download thanks to NE Stäubli.

• photo from foldschool.com

Fumi Ikeshima from Iowa State University made an origami chair by gluing together 35,000 triangular units. These triangular units are the same units used in Golden venture folding.

• read about golden Venture folding here
• photo by B Elbert [Iowa State University].

Another interesting origami furniture is the pleated chairs designed by Chishen Chiu. These chairs expand and compress like an accordian. They are reminiscent of a paper folding style called troublewit.

• read about troublewit here.
• photo from flexiblelove.com
• See video here, here, and here

Fuchs+Funke Industrial Design has made a chair that folds up quickly and easily like a cardboard box. A clean design that is light weight (only 2 kg), easy to assemble with no tools, looks good, and is fully functional. Why can't all furniture be this easy?

• see Papton chair from Fuchs+Funke.
  
  
  

This table is made by folding a piece of aluminum in an origami-like fashion. It was designed by Isamu Noguchi and is formally called Noguchi's "Prismatic Table". It has a hexagonal top supported by 3 legs. Imagine placing your origami models on top of this origami table, wouldn't that be a conversational piece! Not to mention, it costs about £262.

• photo from the Lollipop Shoppe

Here's another piece of origami furniture: it's called "Origami Side Table". It is made of laser-scored steel. There are two pieces that fit and lock together to make a neat little side table. The two pieces are cut from a single sheet with no waste. It was designed by Jaime Salm and Young Jin Chung and sells for about $185 USD.

• photo from the MIO Culture

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