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Japan based designer and architect Mie Matsubara created the Origami screen using bonded cardboard. The inspiration for the Origami screen comes from the traditional Japanese movements in origami such as folding and unfolding. The screen works well when set up in front of a window so it functions as a blind; the change from 2D to 3D varies the amount of light let through the slit, as well as framing the landscape beyond it. www.miematsubara.tumblr.com

You could say that using cardboard for the interior of a European financial services institution befits the times. It’s a bold move by Sander Architecten, the Amsterdam firm responsible for the interiors of the new headquarters of Rabobank in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Cylindrical meeting pavilions made of the material now sit in the company’s 6,000sq m communal “square”, which forms the hub of a new 25-storey building by Urbis Architects. But instead of sending a message of impermanence, the cardboard…

Fashion4home is a successful and rapidly expanding international online designer furniture portal with an online presence in Germany, the US, Netherlands and Austria, as well as the UK. Designer Reinhard Dienes has created a series of cardboard furniture for it that is not only light and strong but also 100 per cent recyclable. Dienes is a designer who likes to think about the environment while producing his comic book-influenced designs. Both the Dickens bookshelf and Georgia sideboard (pictured) are fully…

It would be an understatement to say that cardboard is the material of the moment. It is literally popping up everywhere – in furniture, in children’s toys and, perhaps most poignantly, in workplaces.

The Flat-mate folding stool is made from corrugated cardboard and tested to carry 400kg of area load. Designed as a temporary seat for indoor parties, the stool can be unfolded in seconds and when not in use it can be folded and stored to just 3 cm. The stool is lightweight to carry, rain and fire repellent and can be printed for promotional purposes.   www.svpd.at