Paper Parade

English

The gallery's founder, András Balogh, has designed furniture and storage solutions from corrugated cardboard since 1995. His work - from a standing lamp to an arm chair - can be seen around the world and he has won many professional prizes. His creations are useful, variable, simple and environmentally friendly in all kinds of spaces, at home, in the office and in retail settings. Because of its malleability, paper offers fantastic possibilities for furniture design.

 
Balogh's work is by no means novel. Already in the 1850s, French craftsmen were fashioning rococo cabinets of paper mache, but it was not for another hundred years that paper furniture was designed for every-day use. In 1972, Frank Gehry showed the first cardboard armchair. Other designers followed suit, notably the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
 

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Photo: MTI

Flexible and easy to work with, paper presents the designer with unlimited creative solutions. The Karton-Art Design Gallery offers an outlet for these solutions, giving designers a place to show their work. The gallery's opening exhibition was of works by Balogh as well as graphic art by Evelin Kusnyár and sculpture by Erika Varga.

 
Already, the gallery has advertised a call for submissions for its next exhibition: one of objects made using recycled Christmas wrapping paper.
 
Author: Eszter Götz