Shuffle chair
A paper chair held together by friction (2012, Royal College of Art).
Inspired by the idea that two telephone books, when shuffled together, are virtually impossible to pull apart (see Mythbusters), I created a chair held together by the friction between individual sheets of recycled paper.
[1] With a single paper clip to stop the bottom two pages from unravelling, the chair is held together entirely by the friction between the pages (~500).
[2-7] Sketches showing how the paper slots onto the frame, tests with old newspapers proved the principle; chair assembly animation (cinema 4d)
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Featured on Core77.
Exhibited at RCA Work-in-Progress Show 2013.
Solo project, Royal College of Art 2012.