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A Minimal Design for Low-Cost, Easy-to-Assemble School Furniture

Paco y Paco, by design professor Claudio Larcher

By Rain Noe - February 3, 2023

in Furniture Design

As an exercise to design the lowest-cost, easiest-to-assemble desk and chair for students in developing nations, Claudio Larcher designed this Paco y Paco set.

The Milan-based designer and design professor opted for minimal materials and hardware: Sheet goods cut in simple shapes, rope, a wooden ball to help knot the rope, grommets to prevent the rope from fraying, hinges to allow the piece to fold flat for transport or storage, and simple L-brackets to attach the single cross-member.

"The idea satisfies the need to make the school desk a simple element to assemble and disassemble according to needs. Through the movement of the ropes and with the same closing gesture as a backpack, it can be quickly disassembled."

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Anthony Towers

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I'm pretty sure there is a far cheaper and easier way of doing this.
Hinges, grommets, profiled edges!
(apologies for my crap sketch :D)

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daniel scott

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yes, another wood element would work, but it's for fun. Remember "fun"?

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Zach W

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a single brace beam across the bottom that slots into place would work better than 5ft of rope, and it's still flat-pack.

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