MAKE reader Ken Wallich built a couple of versions (one shown above) of Larry Cotton’s Rok-Bak chair project from MAKE, Volume 19 and shared them with us. The Rok-Bak is an amazingly comfortable chair that’s easy to make and is built from a single sheet of plywood. Here’s what Ken had to say about the […]
This ought to help you enjoy your quality time roughing it in the great outdoors! Too bad there’s no build info…
Image, article via Inhabitat A cooler Adirondack I have not seen: Design students Jeffrey Gerlach and Andrew Stanley have instituted an informal furniture catch-and-release program. With just a few steps, they have discovered a way to construct a clever and stylish Adirondack chair using Department of Public Works roadblocks that are simple, easy-to-assemble, and instantly […]
This radiator chair doesn’t look particularly light or comfortable, but it is beautiful: (Via boingboing)
Posterchild’s seating caps make urban environments a bit more people-friendly These pipes- as pokey, uncomfortable, and rough as they are- have long ago been reimagined as benches, repurposed as public seating on a street that has none. I just made them more comfy! Seen above is one of five installed in Toronto’s Chinatown. – Seating […]
Here’s another one for the wacky chair file. Tennis Ball Chair More: Pool noodle chair Folding chair makeover Paperback chair
Look at this amazing chair by David Karoff, on Rag and Bone Bindery’s blog – they saw it at Myopic Books in Providence, Rhode Island. Rhode Island artist David Karoff welded the chair and attached the paperbacks: they have holes drilled though their insides and are slipped onto a hidden rebar frame. All of the […]
