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I designed the DIY Chair to be constructed using very cheap and basic building materials readily available from your local DIY (do-it-yourself) shop or hardware store, using simple hand tools andjoinery methods, by you. A design for everyone and anyone; mass-production in fact, but production by the masses rather than machines. My DIY Chair was inspired by lots of things I suppose. Of course Iam familiar with Enzo Mari’s ‘Autoprogettazione’ (‘Self-design-project) of 1974 and the ‘Rough and Ready’ furniture by Tord Boontje in 1998, and there is no doubt that my DIY Chair has both aestheticand sociological similarities, but I hope that my personal approach to a single material and method of construction (a common thread with all my work) in conjunction with the current industrial andeconomic climate, provides adequate justification for my DIY Chair to exist and enough incentive for people to make one if necessary. My DIY Chair provides a template for affordable and functional designeasily constructed by both the highly technical and less practical person alike, using the most basic of tools and materials. But nobody need make the chair if they don’t require one. This is partlythe point. The number of DIY Chairs produced will coincide directly with the number of DIY Chairs people want or need. Supply and demand in synergy, controlled quite naturally by the consumer. Thedesign consists of 31 pieces of wood all of which are exactly the same size (47cm). During construction one piece of wood is used to measure the spacing between the slats and to help locate all the otherpieces. I suggest using ‘Smooth Planed Pine’ which is a softwood commonly used by the building industry and has a smooth, splinter free surface. The idea is to use a local or indigenous wood that iseasily obtained, affordable and sustainable. The dimension of wood required is 34mm x 18mm and typically available in lengths from 2 metres to 2.7 metres. I bought seven lengths of 2.7 metre pine....