Natchar Sawatdichai

Natchar Sawatdichai is a Thai product and furniture designer based in London, where she took a master’s degree in product and furniture design at Kingston University. Her work treats paper and cardboard as structural materials rather than surfaces, returning again and again to folding as a way of giving a flat sheet rigidity, volume and movement.

The series began with foldable seats in pandan and continued with the Paper Blinds of 2018, window blinds made from folded paper, and the Glueless Paper Blinds of 2020, assembled without any adhesive. The Paper Stool of 2018 is a folded and laminated cardboard seat built from rigid folding curves and tested through 1:5 scale models, while the Paper Clock of 2017 replaces the hands with paper segments that fold over as the hours pass, in two shades so that the key hours read differently from the rest.