Born in Paris, Jean-Charles Trebbi is an urban architect, designer, artist and writer. A Renaissance man who specializes in the infinite possibilities of folding, cutting and assembling using paper, cardboard, textiles and even wood and metal, influenced by Bruno Munari, Katsumi Komagata, et Masahiro Chatani he creates his own art books, which are often inspired often by urban spaces and architecture, and produces completely original structures with pop-up and cutting techniques. He is author of several books on cutting, folding and pop-up techniques for all sorts of materials and on near-natural architecture.

Contents

Foreword - Why folding

Inspiration - Introduction - Plant world - Anatomy - Animal world - Shadows and lights - Plastic expression - Folding kinetics - Structuring principle - Folding technology

Art - Art as folding - Origami, a gift to humanity. Representations of man. Animals and plants, Art and mathematics. The folder's "digital" art. The expression of folding

Décor - Folding to live, folding as an art of living! Magical decorations - Enchanting decorations. Culinary arts - Tableware. Trimmings.

Fashion - Folding chic. Fabric folding and pleating traditions. Textile art. Clothing inspired by origami. Accessories

Jewellery

Furniture and lighting - Folding comfort. Folding metal. Folding plastic. Folding card. Folding wood. Space-saving folding. Body-fitting folding. Folding for folding's sake. Lighting: folding to create light and shadow.

Architecture - Folding to drive architectural sketching. Folding for spatial organization of functions. Optimizing materials through folding. Folding to explore new perceptions of space. Folding to deploy.

Innovation - Searching is not finding - Modelling folding, from geometric model... to printed template. New folding techniques. Biomimicry. Animated and "intelligent" objects.

Models to fold - Composition of folds

Bibliography - Acknowledgments - Photo Credits

Dust jacket - Folding technologies