The paper boom in design has once again confirmed that you should not detract from the importance of pulp and paper products as furniture raw materials. In Japan, paper was used since ancient times, among other things, for interior fusuma partitions. But if the Japanese valued paper for its subtlety and ability to transmit light, then modern designers create from it truly fundamental furniture that is not inferior in strength to wooden counterparts.

A favorite material was and remains corrugated cardboard, which, thanks to its cellular structure, especially folded in many layers, is suitable even for tables, even for chairs. The apologist of the corrugated cardboard should be considered an architect and part-time designer Frank Gehry. In 1972 for the factory VITRA He created the collection Easy Edges, and later, in 1983, he supplemented it with the legendary chair with the Red Beaver poof. All of his things are produced by the factory to this day, but since democratic material combined with designer genius gave exclusive things with a high price in the amount, they remained popular in narrow circles.

If you are not ready to spend a fortune on furniture made of paper or papier-mâché, you have the opportunity to try on it, and at the same time have fun with children - on the site www.foldschool.com designer Nicola Enrico Stäubli offers Patterns of unusual children's furniture from a sheet of cardboard. Nowadays, the popularity of paper and cardboard furniture is also associated with the desire for total processing: furniture made from waste paper, which will eventually become raw materials, is a perfect example of eco-centric design.