If you’ve ever had to write a tough letter in the good old snail mail days, this Kraft Chair would look eerily familiar to you. Yup, it does bear an uncanny resemblance to a pile of rolled up paper balls that we pre-email folks know oh so well. For ordinary folks like us, a sight of such paper balls in this proportion possibly just meant that a quick trip to the store was in the offing because we were out of stationary, but Brazilian designer Carla Tennenbaum clearly has a gift for seeing beauty in chaos because she ended up using things out her rubbish box to create quite a magnificent set of seats.
The Kraft Chair set is created using nothing but paper balls and glue with a little help from a metal molding frame. Each structure is self-supporting, lightweight, comfortable and completely usable although you might want to be a little careful bringing friends over for drinks when you have a set of these in your living room.
The acclaimed piece was created under the watchful eyes of Fernando and Humberto Campana and its first prototype, with a metal framing, even made it to the Italian fair Abitare Il Tempo’s Projects from Around the World exhibition in the year 2000. Architect Eric Buckup collaborated with the designer for anther version of it in 2004 for Brazilian Young Design exhibit curated by Lucia Petroni at the Brazilian Embassy in Rome in circa 2003.
On its own merit, the design does a fabulous job of using a completely un-furnitureworthy material like paper to create something that not only does a bang-up job of serving as a usable chair, but also looks fabulously textured to boot.
Via: Cargo Collective
