Wood-Skin Introduces Fold Panels.

The Italian surface cladding company Wood-Skin introduces its brand-new Fold Panels collection, with designs that take their inspiration from nature.

“Nature offers more than resources, it offers genius. Its mother language is extensive harmony, not programmed uniformity,” says the brand statement, and we simply couldn’t agree more.

Through its cutting forms, the Fold Panels bend air and create games of lights and shadows, just like shoji paper doors in Japanese homes. The collection sinks its roots in Japanese aesthetics, where nature’s beauty lies precisely in its ephemerality and imperfection.

Imbued with Buddhist principles, the Japanese Weltanschauung of wabi-sabi preaches to appreciate what is inexact, unfinished, and transient. The philosophy extends well beyond poetry and art to go and influence craftmanship in the practice of Origami, literally oru-kami, or to fold paper. Integrating cuts to the Origami method, strictly limited to paper folding, the more recent Ullagami technique utilizes paper sheets in their entirety, tracing a roadmap for a zero-waste production – closely aligned to Wood-Skin ethos.

With their nature-inspired design, Fold Panels not only decorate the space but also enhance the sensorial experience inside environments that animate the seeing and the hearing senses.

For more information, visit wood-skin.com/fold-panels

[Images courtesy of Wood-Skin. Photography by Omar Sartor.]