People have a primal attraction to trees, enough so that home accessories are designed to recreate them.
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A Twisted Bookcase
Straight lines in furniture are not that hard. Straight lines that intersect other straight lines at odd angles complicates things very quickly.
Wooden Folding Chairs
Anyone who has ever helped set-up or clean-up an event in a church basement or school gymnasium knows the problem. Wooden folding chairs are often bulky, heavy and difficult to stack and store properly. Here are some typical examples and a new idea.
Rok-Bak Chair
Looking for an outdoor chair that reclines, is comfortable, easy and inexpensive to build, and can be assembled or disassembled in a few minutes? Here it is, the Rok-Bak chair.
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Inspiration: Haberdasher’s Puzzle Table
In 1903 Henry Dudeney solved the Haberdasher’s Puzzle which cuts an equilateral triangle into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square. The solution was also offered as a dissection puzzle, and one that has been made into a table.
Inspiration: “Chair That Grew”
Using the live edges of wood and twigs in furniture walks a fine line between styles. Use a slab with some bark and it could be very cool modern, but have too many mortise and tenon branches and you come off as rustic cabin.