Nomadic Furniture: D-I-Y Projects that are Lightweight & Light on the Environment

Useful, easy, and creative DIY furniture projects made from plywood and other inexpensive materials.

Designers Victor Papanek and James Hennessey set out to change the world in the mid-1970s, empowering the people to create their own inexpensive furnishings. Their books, Nomadic Furniture 1 and Nomadic Furniture 2, are reprinted here in their entirety.

In their vision of home design, everything is lightweight, folds, inflates, knocks down, stacks, or is disposable. They offer simple ins...