Piñata Furniture

"The idea of the endless cycle of design and production promises a shift in manufacturing processes from the wasteful industrial systems of the nineteenth and twentienth centuries."

Bruce Mau

Furniture made with recycled paper that at the end of useful life can be dispose in the same way as paper; natural glue used goes in the same recycle process that the paper.

I started with a simple piece, a common stool to test the technique and to experiment with structure and finishing details, this first piece was successful, a stool made only from recycled paper and cardboard.

Traditional piñatas copy the form of different characters of comics and cartoons  in an inspirational way but this models are going to be destroy at the climax of braking the piñata this hole act is a kind of catharsis. I decided to use this property in this project making copies of luxurious furniture from the 1800´s.  Furniture that can be dispose without any feeling of gilty either ecological or cultural.

Photography Carolina Nylund / Ernesto García.