Collapsibles: A Design Album of Space-Saving Objects by Per Mollerup,
Thames & Hudson, 2001, ISBN 0-500-28309-5
TOC:
Introduction, 1. Fold it, 2. Mechanics, 3. Furniture, Sources
This book was written to serve as inspiration to designers as well presenting an overview of man's early and current collapsible products. Man has been creating collapsible products, tools, and furniture for centuries. They include paper light shades, telescopes, tents, fire truck ladders, and umbrellas. Collapsibles can be in all kinds of configurations including stress (stretching), telescoping, creasing, folding, rolling, nesting (stacking), fanning, or inflating (and a few others).
It's an interesting book with plenty of illustrations and you will see a lot of old standbys that you use all the time but don't think about. Saving space is certainly not a new idea, in fact it's looking like it has been around since man started making tools.
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