Brazilian designer Rafael Simoes Miranda brings his design talent to the coffee table, creating this cunning flatpack cardboard design. the table folds together like a piece of origami, creating an design that is green in more ways than one. Shown at the Milan furniture fair in 2005, this table created quite a stir, both for its functional and decorative design, and for the way that simple cardboard was transformed into a complex, load-bearing design.
Designer: Rafael Simoes Miranda
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