Dust Free Friends - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3038600075 ISBN 13: 9783038600077

Verlag: Park Books, 2015

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If you’ve decorated on a budget, you’ve probably braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose when big-box retailers rule the home furnishings marketplace―and, by extension, our homes? Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to surround ourselves with handcrafted pieces that perfectly suit our needs? While making your own furniture is not a requirement for a well-planned home, it is certainly possible―no matter one’s budget, skill level, or space―and it can be immensely gratifying.

For Dust Free Friends, Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald of the London-based architectural firm 6a Architects offer the plans for a series of small pieces of furniture that can be simply assembled with a few common tools and in even the most confined spaces. Inspired in equal parts by the utilitarian forms created on construction sites and the do-it-yourself designs of modernist furniture designer Enzo Mari, each of the sixteen chairs, stools, shelves, and other small pieces of furniture is built of affordable and lightweight plywood, which can be dressed to suit any taste. The plans are easy to follow and just as easy to modify, making the possibilities nearly endless.

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Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald are founding partners of the London-based architectural firm 6a architects.

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Dust Free Friends is a series of designs for small pieces of domestic furniture, designed by London-based 6a architects, that can be made very simply at home, in restricted spaces, with a small number of tools and without specialist skills. The lightness and simplicity of the pieces is derived from a combination of observation of the way simple plywood constructions on a construction site are adapted to become stools, tables, steps, and stairs, changing quickly and without fuss as workers need them. The designs also re-examine the long tradition of self-build that has shared the journey through modernism with industry and craft.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Park Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3038600075
• ISBN 13: 9783038600077
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
• Herausgeber: 6a Architects
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