[Chair] Frank Gehry frequently combines the commonplace with the unexpected. An architect and designer, he often designs structures that incorporate unusual materials like corrugated tin and chain-link fencing.

Cardboard becomes extremely strong when laminated, as it is in this chair. As a result, it makes a comfortable, lightweight, inexpensive and practical alternative to wood or metal. Gehry designed the chair for industrial mass production.

Courtesy of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, gift of William Wolfenden.

Lounge Chair, 1970, by Frank Gehry (b. 1930), United States, corrugated cardboard

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