Issey Miyake and Ensamble Studio turn pleating paper offcuts into furniture and sculptural objects, treating industrial waste less like scrap and more like a material record.
An image from the Paper Log project shows how compressed pleating paper becomes something quieter, and stranger, when given a second life.
These “paper logs” look like the crafting mats you ignore in the tutorial area and then they’re suddenly the rare drop everyone’s building with.
I’m stuck on the durability part though—are they sealing them with anything, or is it literally raw compressed paper? I might be over-worrying, but humidity + a single iced coffee ring feels like an instant game over outside a gallery.
Humidity really is the quiet villain here.
If it’s raw compressed paper, an iced coffee ring turns it into a temporary sculpture, not furniture. I’m curious what they’re sealing it with, because Milan in spring isn’t exactly kind to paper.
The bit that gets me is the “furniture” label when it feels like it wants to live behind a rope barrier.
“Furniture” feels like a branding decision unless they’ll let it accumulate the small indignities furniture earns—someone sits, someone drags it an inch, someone wipes a spill without a staffer tensing up.
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