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Indie Furniture: bring your own boards

By Lisa Smith - March 31, 2010

in Object Culture

Indie Furniture is "a bespoke storage solution consisting of universal furniture joints and customized wood panels." In this case though, the panels are bought/found/cut to size by you (or the carpenter around the corner), to be connected by the provided clamps, standardized to common shelf depths.

To save you some of the calculation legwork, Indie Furniture has developed an online configurator to help you determine the number of clamps you need and how much wood to buy/scavenge—just like the container store, but...indie.

According to Nicola From Bern and Blackyard, the developers of Indie Furniture, this system accomplishes several things at once: in addition to being straight-forward to assemble and highly reconfigurable, shipping only the clamps reduces the furniture's carbon footprint and allows consumers to engage their local manpower—whether that be raw material suppliers or carpenters.

The system is currently on exhibit at the Design Museum London, as part of the Sustainable Futures show, opening today. If you're in London, head over there to take a peek, or look through the detailed and well-illustrated online manual for more information on how it all comes together.

A couple more shots after the jump.

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dune

14 years ago

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wtf is that couch?
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Bao-Khang Luu

14 years ago

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@Scott Yeah, $300-$500 is perfect for the well-to-do yupster who can actually afford the apartments in which the shelves are pictured. Guess I'll have to resort to plain ol' fashioned nails...
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Mark Van Norman

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I live in earthquake country, and the lack of back panels for stiffness looks like a problem. It would be easy to fix,,,
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Jake

14 years ago

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It is a great idea... that's been around for years already.
I bought this for my dad several years ago: http://bit.ly/aOkTZ2
More like it here: http://www.blitzusa.com/storageando.htm
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Scott

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Great idea, design, and execution, but $20 per clamp?? Those are all $300-$500 shelves, NOT including the wood, cutting, painting...
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