The Cut-Series, designed by Swedish designers Daniel Enoksson, Lucas E Hinnerud and Jens Boldt, are inspired by the first few steps of design: cutting and folding simple and quick paper models which are translated into functional full-sized furniture. A coat of matte lacquer finish is applied to the super-thin, lightweight aluminum furniture, resembling full-scale paper models.

Photography: Jens Boldt

Designed by London-based architecture firm, Levitt Bernstein Associates, the aluminium-cladded facade was specially designed to function as a louvre system allowing ventilation for the boiler room of the University of Liverpool’s new energy centre. The wall cladding consists of removable diamond-patterned aluminium sheets, whose scale-like form continually changes character as it catches the light in ever-changing ways.

Photography: Eddie Jacob

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The DIY Reykjavik pavilion is a temporary installation initiated and designed by Arnaldur Scram and Simon Stigsby of New York-based design firm Shift.

Constructed with one thousand aluminum triangles, each varying in size, shape, fold, and configuration, the pavilion was designed and processed through a variety of 3D software, laser-cut then folded and riveted by hand.

Aluminum was deliberately chosen due to its unique structural challenges, its abundance and recyclability, but also for its potential to generate debate about the current and future use of the material, specifically in Iceland.

Design statement:”The project is about testing the possibilities that ultimately arise with a collapse Iceland has seen. The modern ideological system which governed Iceland in every way has failed and Iceland is now about actualizing opportunities, not admiring false visions. How do designers navigate within this new reality? Are we going to look backwards and let the future happen or are we going to find a way to navigate forward using what we have at hand? DIY Reykjavik pavilion is about political controversy, new economy, new technology and community to ask questions about Iceland’s future.”

detail of the folded and riveted aluminum triangles

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A beehive? A wasp nest? It’s the Hexa Nest lighting consisting of hexagonal holes to hold similar-shaped rubber lamps. via Yanko

German-based design collective Dua recently sent images of the minimalist fold-able lounge chair designed by Arne Amtsfeld for the Dua Collection. The lounge chair is assembled from the folds of a single sheet of aluminium and leather, just like an origami.

Designer’s words:

A surface made of aluminium and leather turns into a lounge chair by folding a few times. It is manufactured in Germany and available in three different kinds of buffalo skin. In manufacture, recent computer-aided operations are paired with specific workmanship and generates individual items with a first-class finish and a personal note.

About the Dua Collection:

The Dua collection combines ideas from name designers (Alexander Esslinger, Sebastian Däschle, Arne Amstfeld, Chritian Poppel, Tobias Juretzek), who each have their own concepts of thinking and working. Dua gives insights into their basic research and creative powers. The production is based on the principle of short distances and personal contact in Germany. This rests upon the idea of economic and ecological balance. Thereby, recent computer-aided operations are paired with specialized manual skills. dua attaches great importance to the storyline of a design. Beyond that, dua acts as an interior decorator. By doing so, we design and realise — together with our partners from industry and art — living spaces and business premises, exhibitions, bars and stage designs.

Photography: Tanja Evers

Thanks to designer Naoko Ogawa who provided the images of her Gather collection: a fun and versatile set of accessories that emphasizes on how we interact with our clothes.

Comprising of patterned aluminum plates in squares and circles, ‘Gather’ allows the user to create folds on a garment, even hold two or more garments together by pinching the plates on any parts of the shirt, dress or scarf, and all done to the user’s whims and fancies.

Designer’s note:

The plate transforms the style of your clothes in many different ways, depending on not only your everyday emotions, but also the pattern or design of the plate, including new patterns of the plate drawn by crush as well as metal fatigue itself. You can enjoy an unlimited amount of designs on the silver plate and clothes since they never change in the same way.

It is my intention to make this jewelry enjoyably sensual, to let your hand touch and feel your body line (or silhouette of your clothes) with this plate and then to redefine it through crushing. By doing so, you find the idea of your everyday clothes destroyed and / or turned into something new with the beautiful gathers which you could not imagine or predict. The gathers made by the redefinition of the crush creates a new body line (or silhouette of your clothes) and wraps you up for the day.

Gather is available for purchase on NJAL.

Naoko Ogawa

Designed by by Tobias Labarque and folded from a single sheet of perforated aluminum (or aluminium), this chair called TLF03ALU is one little origamic gem fitting for your garden furniture or your designer chair collection.

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images via Yanko & Tobias Labarque

French designer Philippe Macaigne of CraftByMac , conceived this sleek, lightweight Flat chair which is made of a single folded sheet of aluminum. More images after the jump.

the fold detail

Dimensions: L 41 cm D 44 cm H 88 cm

Materials: Alucobest: polyethylene sheet sandwiched between two sheets of painted aluminum

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The ORI Stool is a prototype conceived by Polish designer Jakub Piotr Kalinowski which is aimed at affordability, sustainability and ease of assembly. Inspired by Japanese origami, the stool is made of a single sheet of folded aluminum, and is stackable!

the stool comes with a folding direction just like origami

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