Fedrigoni Rococo Paper Furniture

I entered a competition for the Italian Fedrigoni paper company to promote their products by trying to design and build a piece of furniture out of paper. I designed this lifesize Rococo period Desk Bureau as it represented the long history of the Fedrigoni company, aswell as symbolizing them as a strong company.

I have all the parts made, but havn't decorated all of them. Each piece is hand painted with watercolour, and decorated with pen, colouring pencil and collage. On each piece is hand drawn illustrations depicting the hand made preparation of paper which shows fedrigoni's humble traditions. Sadly, I didn't win.

 Some detail from the top of the lid of the Bureau

Below is one of the hand drawn designs for the furniture. I had lots of designs, and one piece of furniture allocated to every type of paper that Fedrigoni produce. Each piece of furniture symbolised the qualities of the paper, practical, stylish, tough, soft ...

 Front of the Bureau, the rectangles represent drawers which could be pulled out.

 Side panel of bureau, production stage

Finished side, I was really happy with this, there's so much to look at in it, it's quite entertaining. The bureau itself is quite massive, I think its something like 1.5 metres by 28cm, and 1.5 metres high.