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Functional Art  -  Both Beautiful and Useful

 When creating a functional piece of art, the artist's intent is to bring works of creativity and beauty into our everyday lives.  Whether it's a curvy chair made of cardboard or a coat rack made of car parts, functional art is designed to make us rethink the way we look at ordinary things, sometimes by using unusual materials in their construction.

I love using cardboard to make furniture because it can be molded to fit any shape imaginable!  How often do you see a round wooden bookcase?  These fully functional pieces are very strong in addition to being incredibly lightweight.  For example, the end table pictured above can easily support the weight of a person sitting on it, yet can be picked up with just 2 fingers.

Making furniture out of cardboard is really nothing new - the French have been doing it for over 15 years.  My love of all things French and my need for a particular size of table led me to become a cartonniste,  or a cardboard sculptor.  What is new, however, is that I finish my pieces with a traditional Korean papering technique, called jido, that I learned during my 7 years in South Korea.  It's the marriage of  these two different art forms that makes my pieces truly unique.
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