Best of #paper

Among paper’s many possible uses we have chosen fifteen very different applications: some played with sustainability, others on its milky appearance, others on the ease of modeling. Discover below our Best of.

– Nendo, Washi Lamp: Nendo collaborates with Taniguchi Aoya Washi to design his new lamp “Semi-Wrinkle Washi”, a lighting fixtures created with washi and wrinkle processes.

– Wallpapering: will be unveiled at the Milan Design Week the new decorative sound absorbing tiles designed by Dear Human, made of 100% post-consumer paper.

– Take-off light: German label Fifti-fifti designed Take-off light, a paper lampshade with a very fine pattern of laser stitches which can be enlarged at will.

– Jule Waibel, Raised: German fashion designer Jule Waibel creates Raised, a collection of folded-fabrics-dresses born from the project of paper dresses Entfaltung.

– Play Fruit Templates: Mr Printables creates a series of templates to make paper fruits to be used by kids in their play kitchen or grocery stand, as well as to decorate their room.

– Yorunoma bar: folding, pasting and sticking paper together with the local residents, Naoya Matsumoto Design converted a little space into a cave-like bar in Osaka.

– Apartment in Tokyo: Ryohei Tanaka / G architects studio+Teruya Kido / Sumasaga Fudosan, refurbished an attic in central Tokyo, for short-term rentals, with the washi paper tecnique for the concrete walls and ceilings.

– Yoy, Poster: cutting and folding a simple sheet of paper Naoki Ono and Yuki Yamamoto – from Yoy design studio – created a collection of lamps like a A2-sized poster.

– Every city needs a Heart: “Every city needs a HEART-board pyramid” was a participatory spring happening planned by Noa Haim/ Collective Paper Aesthetics for Haifa City Museum.

– Paper works: exploring the concept of urban density, Japanese artist Katsumi Hayakawa created a three-dimensional installation of a landscape made out of paper and glue.

– The Fox’s Den: The Fox’s Den, by French creative duo Zim&Zou, is a 3D “home” of a humanised fox made of paper and leather, in the window of Hermès in Barcelona.

– Cartocci Print: on view at Maison&Objet Cartocci Print, Tulipani and Anemoni: ceramic bottles, trays, bowls and vases crafted by Paola Peronetto and printed with ceramic oxides.

– Fusionner: Kotaro Horiuchi Architecture developed the series Fusionner, three projects that emphasise on the activities that take place in their interior space, three architectures that are able to evolve and to change.

– Furniture in seaweed: for the Terroir Project Jonas Edvard and Nikolaj Steenfatt developed a new tough and durable material starting from seaweed and paper.

– Isabelle Daëron, Ishihara: developed by Isabelle Daëron, Ishihara gives new life to Drop paper scraps, using small rolls of paper assembled to create multicolored rugs and tapestries.
 

Top: Nendo with Taniguchi Aoya Washi, Semi-Wrinkle Washi Lamp, paper lamp. Photo Hiroshi Iwasaki