The furniture project made of recycled paper, which has been in progress for three years, was presented at the Salone Satellite (Salone del Mobile.Milano) in 2023. These are aioi’s first original products.
[01:About the Works] I decided to work with pulp mold, a low-cost material designed for mass production, in product design. However, I thought that it would be meaningless to simply replace the materials used to make products with pulp mold. I had to come up with ideas that would make the use of this material inevitable, such as structural strength, ease of assembly during production, and effective use of texture. The individuality of the product, which is formed by a large number of identical parts, led to the further advantage of “expansion and change. This is how this collection was created.
[02:Resource Recycling] Pulp mold is an eco-friendly material made from recycled paper. It has been used as a “disposable material” for packaging because it is characterized by “low-budget mass production, a little strength, and a texture that can wrap things without damaging them”. In response to this situation, I conceived of a product design that uses pulp molds as the main material, with the idea that the parts can be recycled and replaced with new parts when they deteriorate. The fusion of “permanence” and furniture as an easily recyclable method that does not require a great deal of energy. This is one of the sustainable ideas that I have arrived at while ensuring productivity.