May 06
Making Sturdy Stuff Out of Plastic Sheets, Part 3: Patrick Frey’s Nook Stool and Bench
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Going a bit more hi-tech than the mail bins, Germany-based designer Patrick Frey uses Varioline, a name brand sheet plastic injection-molded with a closed-cell foam core, to make his sturdy yet lightweight Nook line of stools and benches for manufacturer Vial. (You’ve surely seen these before, as the Nook scooped up both iF and Good Design awards for 2010.) The Varioline is scored and cut via CNC, and the resultant shapes are folded into their finished forms.
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