Nomadic Furniture 1 & 2
Hennessey, James and Victor Papanek. Nomadic Furniture: How to Build and Where to Buy Lightweight Furniture That Folds, Collapses, Stacks,, Knocks Down, Inflates or Can Be Thrown Away or Recycled; Being Both a Book of Instruction and a Catalog of Access for Easy Moving, With Many Easy-to-Follow Diagrams, Photographs and Drawings by the Authors. Pantheon Books, 1973. Softbound. $25.
Hennessey, James and Victor Papanek. Nomadic Furniture 2: More About How to Build and Where to Buy Lightweight Furniture That Folds, Collapses, Stacks,, Knocks Down, Inflates or Can Be Thrown Away or Recycled; Being Both a Book of Instruction and a Catalog of Access for Easy Moving, With Many Easy-to-Follow Diagrams, Photographs and Drawings by the Authors. Pantheon Books, 1974. Softbound. $18.
The two books that changed modern home design with their emphasis on the portable, affordable, and ecological—read: lightweight, folding, inflating, stacking—going on to influence do-it-yourselfers and industrial designers alike. The authors looked to Raymond Loewy, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Paul Zucker, and Papanek in particular made waves with his book Design for the Real World and his democratizing ethos, as exemplified in a transistor radio he once constructed from tin cans and powered by a burning candle.
Both books have tight, square spines and clean, unmarked interiors. They both have light to moderate edge-wear and some small areas of creasing to their back covers. Nomadic Furniture 2 has toned pages and a half- by half-inch chip to its back cover at the foot. DIY Construction.
