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The Master Origami Artist Whose Collection Turned to Ash in Altadena | The New Yorker

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As the flames approached his house and studio, Robert J. Lang had time to rescue only one piece of art work: a cuckoo clock he folded from a single sheet of paper.

Save this story Save this story “The first thing you think of when you see your home engulfed in flames is, My world and future have changed,” Robert J. Lang, one of the world’s foremost origami artists and theorists, said recently. He was sitting in a small hotel room in Arcadia, California. The week prior, the house where he lived with his wife, Diane, had burned down when the Eaton Fire erupted and swept through Altadena, outside Los Angeles, with incredible speed, levelling entire neighborhoods. Robert’s studio, a separate property where he kept decades of his professional origami work—all

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