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138 Erics Gone Wild

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...rage A big gardening problem Building a boat Gavin Atkin Ultra Simple Boat Building 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build Storer Boat Plans Fixing a canoe Insulation and new windows You can also find Eric on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme...

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I Built a Set of Gerritt Rietveld Crate Chairs and So Can You

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...ed, as a kit and as plans—truly democratic furniture that even a kid could build with a modest amount of tools and dimensional lumber from the big box store. I made a set of Rietveld’s crate chairs and a crate table for our backyard. The crate chair is a nod to the Morris chair. It’s low slung, kind of like a beach chair (there’s also a taller version). While simple, the chair’s design shows an architect’s appreciation of how planes intersect and...

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Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione

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...ings, rather it’s a manual to teach a vocabulary you can use to design and build your own furniture. Mari says, Therefore the way should be to involve the user of a consumer item in the design and realization of the item designed. Only by actually touching the diverse contradictions of the job is it possible to start to be free from . . . deeply rooted conditioning. It’s no easy feat to make attractive furniture from 2x4s and nails but, especially...

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Saturday Linkages: The King’s Hand

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Saturday Linkages
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...ign Luxury Sneaker Markets Are a Preview of Capitalist Dystopia Farmers Reject Biden’s Pro-Corporate Rural Advisers Out in the wild: how Ken Layne created an alternative to clickbait in the desert Playing God: I sold my wife’s clothes to build a Christmas village in my parents’ basement I had a dream where there was a food called “King’s Hand”, a hollow hand made of m&m cookie, filled with Greek salad. I could not stop thinking about it. Here is t...

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