The Cabbage Chair
Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry.
The paper is wrapped into a cylinder and cut vertically halfway down one side so that the layers can be peeled back one at a time.
Resins added during the original paper production process add strength and the ability to remember forms, and the pleats themselves give the chair elasticity and a springy resilience, for an overall effect that looks almost rough, but gives the user a soft, comfortable seating experience.
The chair has no internal structure. It is not finished and it is assembled without nails or screws. The primitive design responds gently to fabrication and distribution costs and environmental concerns, the kind of issues that fits active, optimistic and forward-moving "21st century selves," the kind of people who, to borrow a concept Miyake expressed during a meeting, "don't just wear clothes, but shed their skin".
But it looks like it was made for the human eye, not the human body.
Posted by Rose Etherington in Dezeen
