Cardboard was once the material of utopian dreams. So why aren’t we living in the corrugated future? LangeAlexandra writes
Photo: Clockwise from top left: Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Alamy Stock Photo, Manuel Kretzer/Responsive Design Studio, Alexandra Lange Yes, you can have athletic sex in a cardboard bed. The rumor that the cursed COVID Olympics in Tokyo was promoting celibacy through flimsy furniture has since been debunked, but that doesn’t mean that those beds aren’t worthy of further scrutiny. It’s not their material that’s weak but the design ambition behind them.
It was also seen as the material of play, an invitation to creativity. No less an eminence than Dr. Spock recommended the cardboard box as an alternative to expensive readymade toys.
As the critic Paul Goldberger wrote in his biography of Gehry, “The desk became the reception desk in his office, where it would be an immediate signal to visitors that this was not the kind of architectural office outfitted with the sleek Knoll and Herman Miller furniture that you saw everywhere else,” much as the chain-link fencing on Gehry’s Santa Monica house indicated it was not like other bungalows.
Like its contemporary The Whole Earth Catalog, Nomadic Furniture positioned this kind of vernacular design as a universal resource rather than an expensive consumer product. Its most shocking entry is for a disposable child’s car seat , created by Eddie Coleman and simplified by Hennessey into ten pieces that could be disassembled into a flat stack but also create a seat that curves around the body.
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