Cardboard furniture

Cardboard furniture cardboard furniture or furniture pieces are made ​​of cardboard or corrugated board. Often they can unfold in a few steps and press together.

History

In previous centuries Papiermachémöbel were quite familiar objects. Already in the 18th century, the Manufacture Stobwasser and Pappmachédynastie Adt worked with this material. While at that time tried to imitate the popular shapes and materials by the carton pressed, impregnated with linseed oil and was then cured under heat, the manufacturers are now aware of the cardboard box as a stylistic device that does not need to hide his identity; the durability and dimensional stability is achieved by appropriate folding techniques. Since the last century designers create mass-produced cardboard furniture collections. Peter Raacke introduced already in 1966 a collection of such furniture before.

Wider awareness received the cardboard furniture early seventies of the 20th century, when the American architect Frank Gehry conducted systematic experiments with cardboard in connection with the production of furniture. As the first product development went seventeen drafts of the so-called "Easy Edges line " in the trade. In the form of cast -sounding sculptures these were initially developed as window dressing, but subsequently also sold commercially successful. Years later developed Gehry, the so-called " Experimental Edges", which, however, not least because utility furniture are classified on the basis of individual production and the price, rather than works of art.

Today's products

In the free market are mainly furniture parts such as cardboard drawers and invite available nowadays. These are often printed or processed with other materials in the composite, as the cardboard surface undergoes only limited acceptance in their visibility.

Principle

Six basic principles ( Martens / Tschuppik ) creative or constructive nature or their mixed forms can be distinguished:

  • Layer principle

Here, a plurality of flat cardboard disks is joined by full-surface gluing, so that a monolithic appearing viable corpus created.

  • Folding principle

Due to the folding of individual sheets of cardboard spatially rigid bodies are formed which, despite low weight, develop considerable load capacity.

  • Plug-in principle

By cutting techniques recesses teeth two or more disk-shaped usually cardboard elements are obtained, which finally form a skeletal way out sounding cabinet.

  • Brett principle

Be bonded single disc-shaped cardboard elements to " board-like " elements, which in turn can have sustainability and stability Analogous to layer principle.

  • Tube principle

Commercially available and / or self-made cardboard tubes are used to develop a viable and / or formative structure.

  • Sandwich principle

The principle of so called " sandwich plate " following a three - or multi-layer " building panel " is made of cardboard, inside which one or more webs are bonded faltwerkartige.

Patents and utility models

  • Günther Reinstein (Hannover ): Furniture from Cardboard / Austrian Patent 46100 ( filing date: October 30, 1909)
  • Allo Assmann ( Passenger ): Chair and stool from cardboard / utility model DE 1,997,033 ( filing date: July 31, 1968 )
  • Paper mill Ludwig Osthushenrich KG ( Herzberg / Harz): chair, especially children chair, cardboard / Patent DE 6810768 ( Anme1detag: December 10, 1968)
  • Smeets and Schippers Int. (Frankfurt): In a sale rack convertible chair from cardboard / utility model DE 7,042,529 ( filing date: November 17, 1970 )
  • Frank O. Gehry (Santa Monica ): piece of furniture or the like / U.S. patent 2259968.4 (filed on December 7, 1972)
  • Co -Pak Packaging GmbH ( Nieder-Roden ): children chair from cardboard / Utility Model 7,533,423 ( filing date: October 18, 1975)
  • Thimm KG ( Northeim ): Zusammensteckbares piece of furniture from several blank pieces of corrugated cardboard, cardboard or the like / utility model G83164545 ( filing date: June 4, 1983 )
  • Europe Karton AG (Hamburg): in particular storage purposes serving sustainable and stood firm, in particular vertically resilient piece of furniture made ​​of foldable material, in particular corrugated / patent EP 0222130 (filed on September 30, 1986)
  • Bruno Rousseaux (Paris): Cardboard furniture constructable by children - is made ​​from parallel sheets with tongues engaging in slots in end panels joined by transverse sections / utility model FR 2.64504 million ( filing date: April 3, 1989 )
  • Rodger A. McCuliough ( Convington ): Child's Furniture and Method of Making / patent U.S. 5,263,766 ( filing date: November 23, 1993)
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