Miniatures Wiggle Side Chair

Frank O. Gehry discovered a process which enabled cardboard furniture to be made in massive blocks cardboard sculptures, as it were. One day I saw a stack of corrugated cardboard in my office; it was the material I used to build my architectural models. And I started playing around with it, gluing it together and then cutting it into shape with a handsaw and a pocket-knife. Gehry called the material made of corrugated cardboard glued in layers that ran at right angles to each other Edge Board.

In 1972 he brought out a series of extraordinarily stable cardboard furniture called Easy Edges. The chairs in the Miniatures Collection from the Vitra Design Museum are models, reduced on a scale of 1:6, which replicate the most important classics of modern furniture design down to the smallest detail. Each Vitra miniature is true to the larger original in construction, materials and colours. Packaged in a wooden box, accompanied by an informational booklet. Each of the objects is made by hand, requiring an average of five hours of careful manual work.