Great, fun book that gets the creative juices going

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	• Nomadic Furniture Victor Papanek, James Hennessey Pantheon, 1973 - 149 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews
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highly recommended

Measure your family.

I bought this book after reading a blurb in New York Magazine. The handwritten font is a bit hard to read, but I could get through it. I might not make anything from the book, but it inspires me.

I like the measurements given in the book, and the idea of measuring your family before buying furniture like tables and chairs. Now I know that height of our dining room chairs are perfect for my husband.
No wonder he LOVES those unslightly shabby chic junkers!

Great, fun book that gets the creative juices going

I love this book. The ideas presented are interesting and the furntiture is very creative and the instructions are clear. I have built a few pieces of the furniture in the book and have not been disappointed at all

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Nomadic Furniture

I got this book in when it was published in 1973. Shortly therafter had a new house built. Of special use were the dimensions provided for seating heights, counter heights. I was able to negotiate my good but conventional builder into some new ideas.

When we moved into the house with, of course, limited resources my wife and I turned again to the book for furniture and lighting ideas and achieve a pretty good aesthetics/cost benefit.

I have since lived at sea, lived in other homes, set up office and other workspaces designed to accomodate the user to very great satisfaction.

The book is both a simple how-to and a significant philosophy of living in a better harmony with the world.

A few highlight ideas :

Use hollow core doors as worktop surfaces, old doors can be sometimes be scrounged from the curbside. (Doorset holes can be used for power cables) new doors can be finished to your taste and can be quite handsome as well as light weight.

Use file cabinets as office furniture bases - place them form a desk kneehole and put a hollow core door on top for a top. Serviceable and easily portable!

Modular bookshelves were great, too.

Live well!

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Wonderful book, workable ideas.

I bought a copy of this book a long time back. I've made up several of the designs, including the no nails or screws workbench. I made the workbench up because I wanted a big desk cheap. That was over twenty years and four major moves ago - and I'm sitting at that workbench desk right now. I lost my copy ten years ago (never, ever lend books that you can't stand to lose!), and am delighted finally to be able to replace it.

If my house were on fire, I'd take this

Forgive the lame review.

I have a huge library, most of it non-fiction. So large I actually use library software and a bar code reader to organize and label all of my books. Of them all, I consider this (and Nomadic Furniture 2) to be within the top 20 books I own. If these were irreplaceable and my house were burning down and I could only carry out ten books, I'd take these. No doubt.

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