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Modular cardboard furniture : hexagonal table

By gilboonet

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This is a really simple furniture to build with cardboard, it's made of 3 little rhombus shaped racks. And this hexagonal table is not the only way you can arrange those 3 racks...

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(this idea is taken from Eugène Printz, genius craftsman of the Art Deco period)

September 26, 2008
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La Bibli. tarabiscotée (the weird bookshelf)

By gilboonet

 

Hello!

 

Here is my latest creation…

La Bibli. tarabiscotée (the weird bookshelf)

at first I made a little web program to customize it

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then I built the profiles

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... then I put the profiles together to obtain the skeleton

 

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What about you here on Curbly, did any of you try to build cardboard furniture ?

May 13, 2008
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How to make a cardboard furniture

By gilboonet

Hello,

 

first of all I apologize for my odd english, my native tongue is not english but french.

 

I'm currently making a basic cardboard furniture, so I will try to explain how I'm doing it.

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You need 3 identical corrugated cardboard sheets, mine are 70cm x 60cm, at least they must be double layered like :

The 3 sheets are :

  • The frontage
  • The inner
  • The back

They will be the 3 layers of your furniture, you can think of » READ MORE

December 08, 2007
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