Nomadic furniture
how to build and where to buy lightweight furniture that folds, collapses, stacks, knocks-down, inflates or can be thrown away and re-cycled
by James Hennessey · first published 1973
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…of this book [0] to furnish a crash pad but then ran out of energy and just dealt with no furniture. Subsequent attempts to try it in the real house were vetoed by my wife. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Nomadic-Furniture-Victor-Papanek/dp/0...
on “WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build” ↗For a while in the 70's, inspired by a book I'd read (maybe Nomadic Furniture, by Papanek and Hennessey) I took my showers with the drain closed. I would paddle around in the ankle deep warm water and leave it in the tub until cool, thus warming my chilly bathroom and small apartment…
on “Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space” ↗In a similar vein, there are the Nomadic Furniture books from the 70s. https://archive.org/details/nomadicfurniture00henn
on “Furniture as Comrade: Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione” ↗…https://www.guggenheim.org/articles/lablog/hartz-iv-mobel-it... Simple Japanese Furniture by Monomono / KAK Design Group: https://woodworkersinstitute.com/simple-japanese-furniture-c... https://www.core77.com/posts/42562/Nomadic-Furniture-DIY-Des... And and and last but not least, the great Christopher Schwarz and team at Last Art Press just got out a whole video serie and book on how to make a highly respectable chair design from very…
on “I made a chair” ↗Nomadic Furniture => https://archive.org/details/nomadicfurniture00henn/ Looks like a cool 70's book. There's a sequel too — but not that I could find on archive.
on “Designing a flatpack bed” ↗Reminds me of the Nomadic Furniture book "cubicles". Here's an instructable showing something inspired by it. https://www.instructables.com/The-Perfect-Instructable-build...
on “Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²” ↗