Naked Chair

Like every other starving student, I bought furniture from Ikea. However, I simply never got better at understanding the cryptic diagrams provided considerately to cater to people of different continents and languages. Of course, my inner-cynic contends that Ingvar Kamprad runs his company in perpetual penuriousness, unwilling even to employ the services of a much-needed copywriter and translator.

Regardless, I have ruined many pieces of furniture by failing to follow the pictorial instructions provided. I doubt this is evidence of my lack of interpretive skills, but rather the construction of the pieces are simply too complex, contrary to their marketing spiel. This is why I find build-it-yourself furniture to be a faulty notion. However, I recently came across the Naked Chair, designed by intercontinental collective known as Out of Stock, which completely challenges my views:

I do not know if it comes with an instruction sheet, but from the looks of it, none is needed. Simply by referring to the picture of the completed product, almost everyone should encounter no difficulty assembling the chair. Afterall, the entire chair is held together with wing nuts. No tools are required.

“Naked is an extremely lightweight chair that uses its structure as its aesthetic. The strength of this chair is due to action-reaction forces between the folded steel sheets and beech wood frame. It also flat packs in transportation and can be assembled without tools, resulting in a very low carbon foot-print.”

Perfect! No where can I get myself one?