Instant furniture: Low-cost, well-designed, easy-to-assemble tables, chairs, couches, beds, desks, and storage systems

by Peter S Stamberg

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442279353
• ISBN13: 9780442279356
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Easy to Follow Diagrams and Photos of Basic Wood Furniture Pieces

From Front Jacket: "Instant furniture? Easy -- all you need is precut wood, glue, and finishing nails. And not only is it simple, quick to make, and unbelievable inexpensive -- what you end up with is the best of 20th-century design. The author, Peter S. Stamberg, a brilliant and innovative young architectural designer, has developed a completely new construction techniques that is not only economical moneywise and timewise but ecologically sound as well. Wood, by far the cheapest and most abundant material, is utilized exclusively, and all the designs are based on stock sizes available precut in any lumberyard. No fancy tools, equipment or joinery practices are needed if you can hammer in a nail, a beautiful and unusual piece can be yours in hours. The book contains 34 designs -- sofas, love seats, couches, armchairs, side chairs, tables, desks, coffee tables, beds, storage units, and shelves -- in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, including upholstery -- all original work by the author and pioneering designers such as Enzo Mari, Gerrit T. Reitveld, Ira Saltz, Carlo Scarpa, and Kazuhide Takahama. Each piece is lavishly illustrated with detailed photos from all points of view and exquisite drawings showing every single step, no matter how basic. A complete list of materials -- size, quantity, and use -- prefaces each design, and a helpful introduction explains how to order wood, how to apply paint or varnish, how to fasten two pieces of wood together, and how to work from the drawings. "

Instant furniture-great idea

Wonderful way for anyone to build their own furniture. easy great looking stuff