The Daily Muser

While idling around online, I came across something I used to do a long time ago: cardboard furniture. Yes, yes, I know, I know. Cardboard furniture? You've got to be kidding me! No. Thanks to the SC Governor's School for the Arts where I attended high school, it became a source of not only great angst, but fascination. I couldn't get the hang of the stuff at the time. We used cardboard strips to make life-sized human models. Mine at the time left much to be desired. A laid out piece propped on its arms with its neck thrown back. Dowdy and stiff it was. I named it Bounded Passion. Very appropriate. Only thing missing was a chastity belt. Later in college, inspired by Louis Nevelson's shadow boxes, I created a box with a hand wounding through and an abstracted face screaming out. I finally got the hang of cardboard by that point. I wish I had pictures of that thing. My balcony is still black from that project!

I didn't realize that cardboard furniture was such big business. I recall a few years back hearing about this young man that furnished his entire apartment out of fedex boxes. Fedex was not amused. One would think Fedex would be thrilled. I mean, free advertising, if nothing else. The site wasn't an ecommerce type deal and he obviously had a lot of stuff delivered via fedex which equals more moolah for them. Am I right?

Here are some examples of what I have found online.


Foldschool.com Modular Cardboard Children's Furniture


Frank O. Gehry


.....it looks sturdy

All in all this stuff looks like loads of fun. Would I decorate my house with it? Eh, maybe my art studio. I'd make a wall piece for the house and spray paint it to match the decor. Maybe a wall piece with a clock slightly off center that spreads out like the branches of a tree with a kinetic and tactile quality. I love art that moves! Painted black against the right background, perhaps an intermingling of oranges and reds with a backlight behind the wall to denote the horizon, and it's definitely a conversation piece. Needless to say, I doubt I'd be a candidate for Architectural Digest! Perhaps I'll reserve my creative sparks for my future art studio. I might actually want to SELL my house one day lol!

Edited to ADD!

Please visit THIS SITE! Really awesome! This guy really sparks my imagination as he will yours!

Labels: art project, cardboard boxes, diy, fun