Paper acquires an edge worth looking at
Paper Chair turns attention towards a feature that a single sheet keeps small: its edge. When sheets are brought into layers, thickness becomes visible and the material begins to suggest different kinds of form.
Boijmans records its V 2506(KN&V) as laminated and pressed paper. It names Jeroen Wand as maker, dates the object to 2006 and records acquisition in 2008.1
Those facts place the chair beyond a visual joke about an unlikely material. Lamination and pressing describe a way of making, while the museum object gives that proposition a specific physical identity.
Thickness changes what a sheet can suggest
The studio’s Paper Chair entry names lamination and finger joints. It also presents wear—tearing, staining and folding—as part of the work’s aesthetic attitude, comparing it with a favourite book.2
That comparison keeps paper’s familiar identity close. The material has taken a new role without losing the associations that made the experiment interesting in the first place.
The visible edge offers a useful route into the chair. A broad plane gives the object its outline; attention to the layers reminds the viewer how many sheets can contribute to that plane. The material is readable at two scales.
Finger joints add another question about the meeting of parts. In the studio account, even those connections remain part of the paper proposition, making the join as interesting as the larger surface.2
An idea returns in another material
The studio’s later Aluminium Chair account explains the design lineage. It describes borrowing lamination from wood production, links Paper Chair’s form with folded sheet metal and traces subsequent veneer work before a return to aluminium in 2019.3
That is an exchange of ideas between materials, with each material retaining its own process. A form can suggest one industry while being made through another material’s possibilities.
Paper Chair makes that exchange easy to remember because the ordinary sheet remains mentally present. The object asks the viewer to follow it from surface to layer, from layer to part, and from joined parts to a chair.