POP-UP TREE

2025


Design: Yuta Shimoda / Production: Fukunaga Print Co., Ltd. / Cooperation: Eriko Kawabuchi

A Christmas tree made by folding a single sheet of paper — no glue, no scissors.

Its form is based on the "tetrahedral kite," devised roughly 130 years ago by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone: a fractal structure of small tetrahedra nested within a larger one, light yet strong — attach a string and it will fly like a kite in the wind.

It folds flat to A4 size, so once the season ends it can be tucked into a bookshelf or drawer and opened again the following year. Color it with pens or stamps to make it your own.

Presented at TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2025 (December 2025), TiSTORE (Showa Kinen Park, Tachikawa) and intoART.

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