Crafting functionality from cut-outs

Produce

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IT started with a child's rocking chair. A cute elephant-shaped seat that Loh Jian Hao fashioned out of 2D cut-outs he made with a precision laser-cutting machine. It proved a hit not just with his niece whom he made it for, but with his friends and it spurred him on to create a whole new way of making furniture.

Mr Loh, 32, and his partner Pan Yi Cheng, 33, are the architecture graduates behind Produce - an indie design workshop in Eunos which specialises in furniture made with just geometric cut-outs and clever joinery. Think of paper cut-outs or thin wooden discs that can be assembled into different shapes. It's a technique that the men developed using a piec…