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| - | Our inspiration for the furniture folder came from an unexpected, almost trivial everyday object: the laundry folder. | + | Our inspiration for the furniture folder came from an unexpected, |
| + | almost trivial everyday object: the laundry folder.\\ | ||
| - | This simple plastic tool, often found in infomercials or organizing enthusiast’s homes, is designed for one very specific task to fold a T-shirt into a perfectly rectangular shape in just a few swift movements. It’s a device that operates somewhere between precision and absurdity. After all, do we really need a tool to fold clothes? Probably not. But there’s something undeniably satisfying about the choreography of its hinged panels and the consistent outcome it produces: fabric transformed into form, quickly and effortlessly. | ||
| - | This choreography, | ||
| - | We took this idea, a folding frame that allows you to bring soft material | + | **This simple plastic tool, often found in infomercials or organizing \\ |
| + | enthusiast’s homes, is designed for one very specific task to \\ | ||
| + | fold a T-shirt | ||
| + | movements. It’s a device that operates somewhere between precision \\ | ||
| + | and absurdity. After all, do we really need a tool to fold \\ | ||
| + | clothes? Probably not. But there’s something undeniably satisfying \\ | ||
| + | about the choreography | ||
| + | outcome it produces: fabric | ||
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| - | What intrigued us most was not just the function of the original folder, but its logic: | ||
| - | A frame that acts as a guide. A set of predefined movements. A tool that enables shape through repetition and gesture. | ||
| - | Our " | ||
| - | Instead of cotton, we fold metal. Instead of tidying up, we build. | ||
| - | The tool itself becomes a silent partner in the act of making—rigid, yet flexible enough to adapt. It's a modular hinge-based frame that allows for different folding geometries and compositions. The result is not a mass-produced piece of furniture, but a crafted object—shaped by hand, guided by structure, and held together by the memory of a fold. | + | This choreography, |
| + | the starting point for our own tool.\\ | ||
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| + | **We took this idea, a folding frame that allows you to bring soft \\ | ||
| + | material into structured shape and applied it to an entirely \\ | ||
| + | different context: aluminum sheets, used to create furniture objects \\ | ||
| + | such as stools, trays, or sculptural containers. Just like with \\ | ||
| + | the laundry folder, the user places a sheet of material onto the surface \\ | ||
| + | of our folding tool. A few precise movements follow: hinges are \\ | ||
| + | closed, edges are brought up, angles are locked in. What begins as \\ | ||
| + | a flat plane is transformed into a spatial object.\\** | ||
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| + | What intrigued us most was not just the function of the original folder, \\ | ||
| + | but its logic: A frame that acts as a guide. A set of predefined \\ | ||
| + | movements. A tool that enables shape through repetition and gesture.\\ | ||
| + | Our " | ||
| + | Instead of cotton, we fold metal. Instead of tidying up, we build.\\ | ||
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| + | **The tool itself becomes a silent partner in the act of making rigid, yet \\ | ||
| + | flexible enough to adapt. It's a modular hinge-based frame that allows | ||
| + | for different folding geometries and compositions. The result is not a mass-\\ | ||
| + | produced piece of furniture, but a crafted object—shaped by hand, guided | ||
| + | by structure, and held together by the memory of a fold.\\ | ||
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