That time I tried to make a Gehry cardboard chair

I recently encountered one of Frank Gehry's cardboard chairs online ( https://www.artic.edu/artworks... ) and like a a taste of a madeleine, a flood of memories from 20 years ago filled my head: That time I decided to attempt a home-made version of his "Contour Chair" (the first image, obv, more info here https://www.metmuseum.org/art... ). I was so excited the first time I saw these cardboard chairs and heard that Gehry was interested in working with low-cost materials to create affordable furniture. Then a bit heart-broken to find out that a chair like that was now priced at $8K.

My experiment was done over the course of several months. The process was as simple as it was ludicrous: On the way home from work each day, I'd stop my the liquor store and pick up used (but clean) cardboard boxes. I would then create a kind of "plywood" by gluing large sheets together. After every 5 sheets or so, I would use a hand-held jigsaw and cut the pattern out, then glue it to the previous set. It was laborious and messy. You can see the results in the lower two photos. My crucial mistake was leaving out the gaps on the edges as Gehry had in his original design (at the time I was working from a single, low-res jpeg I had found online) Without the gaps, the chair didn't have any "give" and was just... not that comfortable.

When we moved out of our rented house, planning to buy a much smaller apartment, we didn't have the space for the chair, so I put it out on the curb. The next morning it was gone. Someone had seen it and brought it home! A new life for the project! But alas, it was not to be: The next day I woke up and the chair had returned to the same spot on the curb where I had left it.