Objects made from paper, or inspired by it, are being elevated to artistic heights. Whether crinkled or cut out, print age-old medium is a material of modern design. By: Sylvia Rupani-Smith from The New York Times
Gareth Pugh, one of several designers to reference paper in his recent work. Shape pieces inspired by the crisp lines of folded paper. Dior Couture Spring collection included silk dresses suggested cut paper patterns. While Christopher Kane robe intricate paper origami.
Off the runway, paper has become popular media on a construction of innovative seating concepts. Some use layers of papers as a tea table and others even as a part of house architecture.
Artists have also been the myriad possibilities of paper. They are creating paper engineering projets while creating paper into spectacular pictures. We know about paper animal heads or dress of from old books. Book sculptures by the artist Stephen Doyle and photographer Eric Boman just recently published book about Victorian paper cut-outs, examine more familiar uses of the medium, while reminding us that the expressing potential of the paper is boundless.
