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Nomadic Furniture

by James Hennessey, Victor Papanek · 1973

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Victor Papanek and James Hennessey set out to change the world in the mid 1970s, empowering the people to create their own inexpensive furnishings. Their books, Nomadic Furniture 1 and Nomadic Furniture 2 are reprinted here in their entirety. In their vis

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short · 149 pages

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