Frank Gehry Corrugated Furniture
Frank gehry fancied using materials from his architectural models into his furniture designs.
Frank gehry corrugated furniture. Crafted from layers of corrugated. After working for several architectural firms he established his own company frank o. Gehry graduated with a bachelor of architecture degree from the university of southern california in 1954. Anyone who loves design on any scale from the shape of a building to the color of the furniture inside of it has probably heard of frank gehry.
When cardboard is layered enough times they build strength into the piece making it suitable for everyday use. 1970s frank gehry easy edges dining table. February 28 1929 is a canadian born american architect residing in los angeles. Throughout the sixties furniture designers played around with cardboard but the lightweight and durable nature of plastic was hard to top.
In the 1980s gehry returned to furniture design and created his experimental edges furniture again out of corrugated and laminated cardboard. A number of his buildings including his private residence have become world renowned attractions his works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 world architecture survey which led. Frank gehry is a canadian american architect known for postmodern designs including the walt disney concert hall and the guggenheim museum in bilbao spain. Frank gehry was born in 1929 and raised in canada until he immigrated to los angeles california in 1947.
Cardboard furniture is a furniture designed to be made from corrugated fiberboard heavy paperboard or fiber tubes. Gehry style the furniture shape is cut out of cardboard many times and put together for a solid piece. He studied architecture at the university of southern california 1949 51. Unquestionably one of the most innovative most popular and most prolific architects of his generation gehry is famous around the world for his unconventional designs and ingenious use of shapes and materials to produce striking sometimes reality.
Gehry associates in 1962 and established its successor gehry partners in 2002. Gehry s family immigrated to los angeles in 1947. Frank gehry designer furniture. The story behind frank gehry s easy edges.
From 1969 to 1973 he designed a furniture line called easy edges. Frank owen gehry cc faia ˈ ɡ ɛər i. 1954 and city planning at harvard university 1956 57. They constructed the easy edges dining table from corrugated cardboard.
The experimental edges series was art furniture in many ways similar to the work of ron arad and tom dixon who used materials such as corrugated iron plaster industrial girders and wicker. From architect frank gehry s iconic corrugated cardboard easy edges series a rare gaming table having an octagonal top that rests upon three square columns. Born frank owen goldberg.