Local designer Brian Thoreen has created a set of four chairs made of stacks of manila paper as part of an exhibition at Masa gallery during Mexico City art week.
Called Paragraphic in Four Stacks, the piece comprises four separate chairs, each made of 3,000 stacked pieces of wrinkled manila paper ? the type of paper used in envelopes. Each of the sheets of paper was individually glued to the piece below it. The sheets are only glued on the seat of the chairs, so that the natural tension created by the glueing process forces the edge of the paper to start tilting up, creating the back of the chair.
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