Undergrad Zach Rothholz’s love affair with cardboard started with playing inside large refrigerator packing boxes as a child. Later, as a mechanical engineering student at Yale, he began experimenting with corrugated triple-wall cardboard. Originally designed for industrial and military applications, the material is super strong, lightweight, recyclable and sustainable.
Inspired by the ancient art of origami, Rothholz envisioned a solution to create furniture made from the material for dorm rooms and other applications that could benefit from durable, temporary furniture . The result was pure genius; chairs, tables, bookshelves, sofas and other furniture that is efficient, socially responsible, cost-effective and functional. And…the kids can draw on it. How cool is that?
