Faculty of Applied Arts

Furniture Design& Sciences

Program

Recycled Furniture
Eco-friendly materials
Prof. Maha El Halaby - Prof. Doaa Abdel Rahman

Third Grade (Eighth level)

2021- 2022
Eco-friendly materials:
it is a material that can be used in a product
and recycled after its end of life.
• Green furniture :
1. For a long time when we’d pick out our furniture,
we didn’t consider where it came from, is this good
for my environment, my family, my WORLD, etc.
We just thought, “I like the way this looks!” Now,
with so much awareness towards eco-friendly
products, design, and environmental issues; it’s
clear that we can’t overlook the fact that buying
“green” is the way to shop.
2- Some companies have created a line of non-
toxic sold wood furniture. With every product
they think about sustainability, materials, green
design.
3- Each piece of furniture is high-end, well
designed and is safe for home, workplace and
obviously, nature. It means " green furniture".
• Cardboard furniture:
• Is the furniture, which designed to be made from
cardboard .
• Cardboard furniture also; various types of
furniture, which are produced with heavy paper, as
raw material.
Although people have lived on and around
cardboard for as long as it has existed, it was
probably first introduced to the design world by
Frank Gehry. Architect Frank Gehry is
believed to have been the first to use
cardboard while creating a line of furniture in
the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is said to
have wanted to take basic materials and use
them to create items that are visually striking
but also functional

• Frank Gehry
• So we can find three different types of
cardboard furniture.
• 1. The Frank O. Gehry style: The furniture shape
is cut out of cardboard many times and put
together for a solid piece.
• 2. Move-Cardboard technique: The Pieces of
furniture are built like packaging and then can be
fitted together at home in her form like move
cardboards.
• 3. The lightweight construction style Frame
construction and coverage
• Benefits of cardboard furniture
• While many environmental groups have been touting
cardboard furniture for its benefits to the planet by
using recycled materials,
• The advantages of using cardboard furniture goes
well beyond the "green" movement, especially when
compared to normal furniture. Traditional tables and
chairs can be quite expensive,
• Once in the home, cardboard furniture is easily
assembled. Many pieces are designed to fold up when
not in use, which makes them easier to store in small
places. Despite this portability, cardboard tables and
chairs are made to hold hundreds of pounds.
• Using cardboard in Indoor furniture:
• At home:" antique , modern styles "
• bed rooms
• Living rooms, "seething- book cases,…"
• Casual furniture
• dining-room
• children
• Displaying, show –room
• Outdoor furniture:
• Gardens, Picnics
• Cardboard inspired furniture designer:
• Here are some examples of cardboard furniture
designs usages:
• The designer uses the contrast between light and
dark to make his pieces even more visually
intriguing. Some parts of the furniture bellows' are
painted, by uses 100-percent all-natural milk paint
to achieve this effect.