I think I might have found my perfect Christmas Tree. Even though I’m quite fond of “real” trees with real needles that start to fall off right after Christmas Eve or even before I think this Cardboard Christmas Tree by A4Adesign would be a perfect addition to my flat. Well, my boyfriend’s flat to be correct – no way to kill this tree and he has enough space for a whole forrest, too!
When we were in London this autumn I saw the Cardboard Playhouse at the Conran Shop. I even forced the IPhone-owning boyfriend to take a picture of the house and tree (oh, the tree that comes with real red cardboard-apples) but never investigated what company is behind this great product. Thanks to Justine of upon a fold I now finally managed to find the company – and all their other products and designs made of honeycomb cardboard. Now I only need to stop by at the A4Adesign showroom in Milan next time, solve some transport issues and get that credit card glowing!
Posted by Linda at 11:39 pm on Dezember 7th, 2010.
Categories: Kid's Stuff, Paper Design. Tags: Design, furniture design, paper furniture, toys, What I would love to get....
What to do on a rainy day like today except waiting for the sun? The
MAK Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna offers free admission on Saturdays and the study collections and special exhibitions are always woth a visit. The museum has also a great (though not cheap) museum store with a wonderfully chosen selection of books and design stuff. There I discovered the
SIWA products by Naoto Fukasawa and fell in love with them, of course.
The bags, envelopes and containers are made of “a kind of paper”: Noaron paper by the Japanese paper manufacturer
Onao. The paper’s wooden pulp is mixed with polyolefin so the resulting material is tear and water resistant and very strong. The whole idea reminds my of traditional “Kamiko” textiles and other Japanese techniques to make paper water resistant and strong using natural astringents (e.g. kaki). Even the “wrinkled look” is quite the same.
The name SIWA is derived from the Japanese word
shiwa or wrinkles in the paper, as well as being the two characters making up the word
washi (Japanese paper) in reversed order. Some of the bags as well as a pouch my MacBook would fit into perfectly can be bought at the MAK Shop at the moment for very reasonable prices. On the
SIWA homepage there is also a unfortunately quite small list of further shops stocking these items.
The SIWA products remind me of the bags made by
essent’ial I discovered when I was in Italy in March this year.
I’m still not sure what the essent’ial bags are made of except that it is some kind of recycled fibre (no paper, though) but nevertheless I like them and actually I’m a proud owner of one of them.
Posted by paperphine at 4:51 pm on Mai 22nd, 2010.
Categories: Made me look, Material, Want To Have. Tags: Design, paper furniture, What I would love to get....
molo at Superstudio Piu, Milan Design Week 2010
When I read that molo design was exhibiting at the current Milan Design week I began wondering where I had heard that name before. Doing a little research I figured out that the love letter light that my boyfriend likes a lot (and no, usually he’s not the overly romantiv type of person) is by the same Vancouver-based design and production studio.
molo: soft room (project)
molo: cloud soft light
molo: softwall and softblock modular system
molo uses mainly paper and textile material for their products (and there is also always a “textile” version). the “structures” the seating, partititioning and lightning modeles are made of are completely flexible so they can be arranged and stretched at will. And I think that the lights and seating fit just as nicely in my rather small but airy bright flat as in a loft where the playground is even bigger and also suited for the soft walls and especially the soft rooms.
my boyfriend’s favourite: the love letter light by molo
And the really nice thing about all these quite sculptural pieces of furniture (furniture, really??) is that they can be packed into small boxes and are shipped to Europe as well!
Posted by paperphine at 12:33 pm on April 16th, 2010.
Categories: Exhibition, Made me look, Want To Have. Tags: Design, paper design, paper furniture.
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