Turn a modest chair to a large settee

This awesome chair is constructed almost entirely from recycled cardboard and can expand to hold up to 16 people!

It’s a little embarrassing when unexpected guests descend on your doorstep and you don’t have enough seating to accommodate all of them. But now you can minimize chances of social embarrassment by buying an innovative new chair — the FlexibleLove chair. This awesome chair is constructed almost entirely from recycled cardboard and recycled wood waste and can expand to hold up to 16 people!

At first glance, the design of the chair seems simple, but after you see how it quickly expands and contracts, you really appreciate the complexity of its design. The unique traits of its structure ­­­­­­­­­— much like an accordion and an a honeycomb — allow it to be stretched and folded into a multitude of shapes and lengths, creating surprisingly strong seating. To adjust its length and shape, you simply have to ‘play’ it like an accordion — much like playing an accordion. For a chair that offers this much flexibility and adaptability, it’s hard to believe it is made almost entirely of recycled cardboard.

And the chair can actually hold weight of up to 16 people. How, you ask? Their body weight is divided evenly between the hundreds of cells contained in the chair.

The FlexibleLove was designed by Chise Chiu, a young designer from Taiwan. He discovered a factory in suburban Taipei that made honeycomb-structured pieces of recycled paper. This gave him the notion that the qualities of rigid honeycomb-structured cardboard can be employed to construct flexible furniture.

Source: gizmag

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th, 2012.