Design Secrets: Furniture

says Michael Wolfson of the genesis of his Origami Table. “Their

studies of movement and motion are still going on today.”

In addition to these influences, the seeds for what would become

Wolfson’s Origami Table were planted a decade ago with a project

that involved designing some chairs. But it wasn’t until a couple

of years ago that he dusted off some old sketches and began to

look at how to make his more formal studies viable. “In the last

two years, when there began to be a stronger interest in art fur-

niture,” he says, “this spurred me to go back and spend some

time looking at furniture and see where it is in the culture.” Ac-

cording to Wolfson, ...