GUERILLA FURNITURE DESIGN How to Build Lean, Modern Furniture with Salvaged Materials will holman Photography by Kip Dawkins ß Storey Publishing Guerilla_INT_final.indd 1 12/10/14 10:20 AM The mission of Storey Publishing is to serve our customers by publishing practical information that encourages personal independence in harmony with the environment. Edited by Philip Schmidt and Sarah Guare Art direction by Alethea Morrison Book design by Kelley Galbreath Photo styling by Neely Dykshorn Indexed by Christine R. Lindemer, Boston Road Communications Cover and interior photography by © Kip Dawkins Photography, except © Alfonso Elia, 2; © Daniel Wicke, 3; © Ryan LeCluyse, 100, 103, and 179 (second row, far right) Illustrations by © Koren Shadmi © 2015 by William C. Holman All rights reserved. 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Donnelley 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holman, Will.   Guerilla furniture design : how to build lean, modern furniture with   salvaged materials / by Will Holman.        pages cm   Includes index.   ISBN 978-1-61212-303-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)   ISBN 978-1-61212-304-2 (ebook)  1.  Lean manufacturing—Management.  2.  Furniture industry and trade.  I. Title. HD58.9.H653 2015 684.1—dc23                                                             2014033718 Guerilla_INT_final.indd 2 12/10/14 10:20 AM CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Two-Tone Table 94 Preface viii Scrap Table 99 Bracket Chair 104 1 INTRODUCTION 108 PLASTIC Guerilla History 4 Guerilla Sustainability 7 Campaign Lamp 117 Guerilla Philosophy 8 Traffic Cone Lamp 120 The Guerilla Workshop 10 Milk Crate Credenza 125 Design Fundamentals 14 5-Gallon Stool 128 Inner Tube Stool 132 20 PAPER Pill Bottle Pendant Lamp 135 Milk Crate Wall Storage 139 Hex Stool 28 Yogurt Lamp 142 Cube Lamp 31 Book Table 34 146 METAL Cardboard Tube Screens 38 Cardboard Cantilever Chair 42 Conduit Coatrack 154 Cardboard Shell Chair 46 License Plate Bowl 157 Clamp Table 160 50 WOOD Conduit Lamp 163 Wheelbarrow Chair 167 Un-TrashCan 64 Road Sign Chair 170 Guerilla Roof Rack 67 Flat-Pack Sawhorses 70 Recommended Reading 175 Door Desk 74 Standard/Metric Conversion Break-Down Table 78 Formulas 177 Flat-Pack Shelves 82 Projects by Use 178 Bedside Table 86 Index 180 Scrap Lamp 90 Guerilla_INT_final.indd 3 12/2/14 3:03 PM THIS ‘COUNTER- CULTURE’ REVELATION OF SLACK OR REDUNDANCY IN OUR PRESENT SOCIETY PROVES THAT ONE CAN LIVE OFF THE WASTE OF AN AFFLUENT MAJORITY.” CHARLES JENCKS Guerilla_INT_final.indd 4 12/2/14 3:03 PM THIS ‘COUNTER- CULTURE’ REVELATION OF SLACK OR REDUNDANCY IN OUR PRESENT SOCIETY PROVES THAT ONE CAN LIVE OFF THE WASTE OF AN AFFLUENT MAJORITY.” CHARLES JENCKS Guerilla_INT_final.indd 5 12/2/14 3:03 PM Guerilla_INT_final.indd 6 12/2/14 3:03 PM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I want to thank Amanda, for putting up with also to Kip Dawkins and his assistant Marcie Saturdays in the shop, sawdust in the living for the beautiful photographs, and to Kelley room, and life with a guerilla. You are my first Galbreath for designing the book. A special reader, my best design critic, my inspiration, thanks to Philip Schmidt, who first contacted and my support. me to feature one of my designs in his book, Thank you to my parents, Fran and John, PlyDesign, and went on to e-mail editors on for supporting my education, teaching me my behalf and to edit this book for clarity, responsibility, instilling a solid Protestant content, and coherence. work ethic, and selling me that Corolla for a And last, thank you to all the teachers comically good price. Thank you especially I have had over the years. They taught me to my mother for her persistent lessons in about writing, aesthetics, art, architecture, grammar, however fitfully they may have design, carpentry, and ethics. In chronological been absorbed. order: William Jones, Juan Castro, Albert Thanks to my siblings and siblings-in-law Knight, Robert Goll, Salahuddin Choudhury, (Spence, Ellie, Sara, James, and Jane) for their Timothy Castine, Hunter Pittman, Christopher encouragement, legal assistance, design Pritchett, Eugene Egger, Paolo Soleri, David help, copyediting, material donations, and Tollas, Mark Melonas, Seth Scott, Andrew absorption of various discarded furniture Freear, Daniel Wicke, Johnny Parker, Steven prototypes over the years. Long, John Marusich, Sara Williamson, Thanks to the fine editors, designers, and Cynthia Main, Blake Sloane, John Preus, staff at Storey Publishing for believing in my Tadd Cowen, and Theaster Gates Jr. story and making this book a reality. Thanks Guerilla_INT_final.indd 7 12/2/14 3:03 PM PREFACE GUERILLA DESIGN IS A SET OF TACTICS FOR BUILDING LEAN, MODERN FURNITURE OUT OF SALVAGED MATERIALS. Guerilla_INT_final.indd 8 12/2/14 3:03 PM GUERILLA DESIGN IS A SET OF TACTICS FOR BUILDING LEAN, MODERN FURNITURE OUT OF SALVAGED MATERIALS. U.S. ARMY FIELD MANUALS THE TERM GUERILLA — GUERILLA DESIGN, as are handbooks for military person- Spanish for “little war” — was invented described in this manual, is a set nel, published by the Department of in the early nineteenth century. In mod- of tactics for building lean, modern Defense. Since World War II, hun- ern usage, guerilla describes both furniture out of salvaged materials. dreds of titles have been published, insurrectionary warfare and insurgent These techniques are explained including civilian-friendly topics like fighters themselves. Such fighters are generally and then illustrated with first aid and wilderness survival. tough, resourceful, and adept at living a series of case studies, sorted by Each manual breaks down complex off the land. material: paper, wood, plastic, and concepts into manageable pieces, metal. Each project is presented illustrated with simple black-and- in detail, with the assumption that white diagrams. materials and methods will be adapted to conditions in the field. Guerilla_INT_final.indd 9 12/2/14 3:03 PM