London-based architect Henning Stummel is launching a leather and birch plywood furniture collection during London Design Festival, which he is showcasing inside his unusual, bright red house.
Called Nomad, Stummel's debut furniture range includes a two-seater sofa, an armchair and a coffee table. All three pieces can be flat packed and are designed  to waste as little material as possible.
The architect said assembling the furniture requires no instruction other than "two minutes of common sense".

Each piece is constructed from five components, all of which can be cut from a single sheet of birch plywood. According to Stummel, this was the minimum number of pieces that the architect needed to get complete stability for the frame. "It takes so long to have anything made in England. These 2D cutouts were an epiphany: you can send off a design and get it back the next day," he said.

With just one piece of plywood per item and the upholstery for each set of cushions created from just one leather hide, each piece can be created with almost no waste.
This aligns with Stummel's architectural approach, which favours things that last a long time and reflect how they are made.

The architect came up with the idea for the sofa while he and his wife were looking for furniture for their Shepherd's Bush home, Tin House. The property, which was shortlisted for the RIBA's House of the Year award in 2016, comprises a cluster of red metal-clad pyramid-shaped...