I'm totally in love with this. Foldschool website listed awesome cardboard furniture, and put up their patterns for free, so you can have a hand in making them yourself. The patterns cost you nothing, but you do have to come up with your own materials and effort.
There is something about cardboard that always fascinates me. I love the natural-yet-iconic putty colour, the texture, and most of all its versatility. Cardboard is the mother of all things rustic beautiful (hence, the inspiration for Peanut's 1st Birthday Announcement card).
Anyway, what I love most about these patterns is the ingenious geometric design that builds the furniture
in a robust and stable structure with nothing else but cleverly folded and glued cardboard. There are three choices of furniture can can build: a chair, a stool and a rocker. I'm hoping they're going to come up with new designs in the near future. This is a project that I would gladly take on when Peanut has her own room. I could love
this so much (it
appeals to both my artistic and geeky sides), I might make enough that Peanut's next birthday includes a chair in the goodie bags.
Cher,
I remember a long time ago, I made my typing table from thin plywood, not cardboard though, the shape is dominated by triangular style. It was strong, sturdy, but only had a drawback, its lightweightness make it was easy to turn over.Putting a heavier base plate just made the center of gravity little bit lower thus increased its stability. My girlfriend ( at that time SCB,and now Ms. SBS ) said it was brilliant and she liked it!.
Posted by: 4sythe | 01 July 2007 at 10:54 AM