1x nesting tables
Not a lot of room in your apartment or home? These nesting tables allow you to have one, two or three surfaces that can be used as tables, or in a pinch, as a place to sit. 1x nesting tables are made using a single 1x12, 1x10, and 1x8 each 96” long. They are sized to use as much of each board as possible, i.e. little or no waste. The material that goes on top is optional. I used cork flooring. You might choose to use no additional surface material, linoleum, marble, aluminum or a material I haven’t thought of or know nothing about. Please feel free to download the drawing and make a set of your own. All I ask is that when you are done you email me images of your project along with notes explaining how you modified my design and why.
For my Illinois Institute of Technology Spring 2009 Archiitecture & Furniiture course, I proposed to my students the design of furniture that can be regionally fabricated & customized using locally sourced materials, simple joinery, common fasteners & environmentally friendly finishes.
Our furniture, designed for local fabrication & customization, critically assessed the contemporary system of selecting, buying & using globally pre-manufactured and warehoused design objects.
Consumers could be co-designer, maker and user. Ours was an invitation to move production & consumption from a globally passive monologue to an actively local dialogue.
Our furniture designs were proposals, roadmaps and/or schematics requiring the end user to simultaneously lead and follow.
Box-free, ship-free designs, challenged warehouses filled with globally stored & shipped packages of melamine parts, fasteners & the included at no extra cost allen wrench.
Where previously nothing could or might happen during assembly, we treated dimensions, materials, fasteners & finishes as opportunities for site specific adjustments and localizations.
Ours was a virtual catalog of furniture that physically existed when necessity inspired the future user to exercise their option of making.
Climate, culture, custom and craft were no longer neutralized but activated and encouraged.
“fabricatiing locally” celebrated the relevance and influence of the end user.
Furniture could be produced by the masses, but did not and does not have to be mass produced.
This was our studied distinction. A project addressing the needs of an ever-expanding population struggling with a globalization that threatens the very existence of all things local.
The assignment for my Illinois Institute of Technology Spring 2009 Archiitecture & Furniiture course was inspired by the writings and makings of Italian architect/designer Enzo Mari specifically Enzo Mari’s book “Autoprogettazione.”
Our furniture, designed for local fabrication & customization, critically assessed the contemporary system of selecting, buying & using globally pre-manufactured and warehoused design objects.
Consumers could be co-designer, maker and user. Ours was an invitation to move production & consumption from a globally passive monologue to an actively local dialogue.
Our furniture designs were proposals, roadmaps and/or schematics requiring the end user to simultaneously lead and follow.
Box-free, ship-free designs, challenged warehouses filled with globally stored & shipped packages of melamine parts, fasteners & the included at no extra cost allen wrench.
Where previously nothing could or might happen during assembly, we treated dimensions, materials, fasteners & finishes as opportunities for site specific adjustments and localizations.
Ours was a virtual catalog of furniture that physically existed when necessity inspired the future user to exercise their option of making.
Climate, culture, custom and craft were no longer neutralized but activated and encouraged.
“fabricatiing locally” celebrated the relevance and influence of the end user.
Furniture could be produced by the masses, but did not and does not have to be mass produced.
This was our studied distinction. A project addressing the needs of an ever-expanding population struggling with a globalization that threatens the very existence of all things local.
The assignment for my Illinois Institute of Technology Spring 2009 Archiitecture & Furniiture course was inspired by the writings and makings of Italian architect/designer Enzo Mari specifically Enzo Mari’s book “Autoprogettazione.”