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Modular furniture is disclosed wherein a system of tubes, preferably made from laminated paper or paperboard, build a system of rectangular frame-like subassemblies. The fill-in panels used in the subassemblies are of the type of hollow prisms, usually rectangular prisms, open at both ends and provi

Modular furniture is disclosed wherein a system of tubes, preferably made from laminated paper or paperboard, build a system of rectangular frame-like subassemblies. The fill-in panels used in the subassemblies are of the type of hollow prisms, usually rectangular prisms, open at both ends and provided at the open ends with inwardly rounded side edges compatible in size with the surface of the structural tubes. Several embodiments of the fill-in panels are disclosed inclusive of cardboard blanks from which they may be produced. The invention further advances the art of inexpensive modular furniture and its manufacture.

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A modular furniture kit comprising: (a) a plurality of open ended, generally cylindric tubular support modules; (b) a plurality of angular connectors, each connector comprising a plurality of stems projecting from a center of the connector and disposed at right angles relative to each other, said st

A modular furniture kit comprising: (a) a plurality of open ended, generally cylindric tubular support modules; (b) a plurality of angular connectors, each connector comprising a plurality of stems projecting from a center of the connector and disposed at right angles relative to each other, said stems being compatible in size with the tubular support modules for inserting each into one end of one of said support modules to thus connect two of said support modules to each other to form a three-dimensional structure comprising a plurality of rectangular frame sections disposed at right angles to one another; (c) a plurality of fill-in panels, each fill-in panel being of a quadrangular prism-like configuration compatible with said support modules for securement of one or more of the panels in a selected one of said rectangular frame sections, each of said panels, when assembled, including: (i) two spaced-apart, quadrangular and generally planar, opposed face boards comprised of a first board and a second board, said boards defining faces of said panel; and (ii) four peripheral edge portions comprised of: (1) a pair of opposed edge wall portions integral with the first and/or second board and defining two opposed edges of the panel; (2) a first rectangular hollow edge section defined by a first edge of each of said first and second boards and by a first end edge of each of said edge wall portions; (3) a second generally rectangular hollow edge section opposed to the first edge section and defined by a second end edge of each of said first and second boards and by a second edge of each of said edge wall portions; (iii) said first and second end edges of each of said edge wall portions being concavely rounded at a radius generally corresponding to the outside radius of the support modules of the respective frame section; whereby, in an assembled state, the end edges of said edge wall portions engage the surface of the support modules at opposed sides of said rectangular frame section.