Nomadic furniture

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1. ajotAug 2025
   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...

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2. JKCalhounJul 2025
   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.

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3. aredoxJun 2025
   What is interesting also in Enzo Mari's concept is that there is no instructions, you have to figure out the best order of operations and how to offset some planks with others.

   For those of you who start from really zero and have no idea how to start, here is a step-by-step for a couple of pieces: https://lieu-subjectif.com/documents/caue-22-rietveld-mari.p...

   If really you want a "cheat sheet", there's whole book to help: https://filmandfurniture.com/product/hammer-nail-making-and-...

   But try not to use it too much, because it really defeats the purpose of Mari, which it is to get people to "think with their hands".

   Digging through the legacy and follow-ups of Autoprogettazione is also interesting:

   https://lieu-subjectif.com/documents/autoprogettazione-revis...

   https://greg.org/archive/mari-x-ikea.pdf

   The "Harz IV" (Germany's working poors) furniture project: 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 basic materials and tools:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWLHAJr5zI

   Note also that Lost Art Press makes their books free after some time after first publication, and have a very interesting blog:

   https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/12/27/download-ingenious-...

   https://blog.lostartpress.com/

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4. mhdOct 2022
   In a similar vein, there are the Nomadic Furniture books from the 70s.

   https://archive.org/details/nomadicfurniture00henn

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5. todd8Sep 2017
   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 for "free".
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6. coredog64Mar 2017
   I bought a copy 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...

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