Frank Gehry Furniture Cardboard

Cardboard furniture 1972 frank gehry was one of the first designers to produce cardboard furniture having created the wiggle side chair in 1972.
Frank gehry furniture cardboard. Throughout the sixties furniture designers played around with cardboard but the lightweight and durable nature of plastic was hard to top. As was and is true of gehry the architect the main attraction to his furniture was its use of an ordinary material corrugated cardboard to create fantastic shapes that literally reshaped people s image of furniture while remaining extremely functional and durable. Gehry had a brief but memorable foray into cardboard furniture by hannah marti n december 19 2018 a wiggle side chair and stool in a gluck bedroom. Explorations of cardboard were waning when in the early seventies frank gehry released the easy edges collection.
Manufacturers had been seeking an alternative to plastic since the 1960s but struggled to find anything that could compete with its light flexibility. Gehry used thick corrugated cardboard with a pronounced texture to create this furniture s larger volumes manipulating their density by combining sheets of varying widths within a single form. Gehry came to national attention with his easy edges furniture line made of corrugated cardboard and fiberboard and including the easy edges body contour rocker 1971 and the 1970 and 1972 editions of the easy edges side chair. However he soon withdrew the easy edge chairs from production fearing that his popularity as a furniture designer would detract from his reputation as an architect.