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No shelter is too small or too basic to accommodate a comfortable lifestyle when everything you need, from your bed and kitchen to walk-in closets and mini theaters, is contained in one compact, mobile, modular 'living unit.' Often fitted out for plumbing and boasting their own internet and sound systems, these rooms-within-rooms can instantly make - Page 3

The 1970s was a golden era for DIY furniture manuals. One of the best is Nomadic Furniture, a 1973 book by designers Victor Papanek and James Hennessy. Papanek and Hennessy are gifted designers.

You don't need a lot of tools or experience to make furniture. Over the years we've posted about simple DIY furniture resources, mostly, but not all, from the 1970s, and I thought I'd collect those posts into one mega post.

Another favorite, Nomadic Furniture 1, by James Hennessey and Victor Papanek, published 1973, Pantheon Books. At once retro and current in a Readymade/Make/Ikea-hacker sort of way. Although I've never made anything from this book, it's the second copy I've owned,...

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