Five chairs from $195, sold with their drawings. The keel chairs go together with a hex key.
Keel Panel Dining from $295
Two congruent triangles sharing one beech keel. See the chair.
the chairs
The first hardwood keel chair, structural ply on a salvaged eucalypt spine, the day it was built. Two congruent triangles sharing one beech keel.
Black hex ply and beech · seat 446 mm · flat-packed in one carton
- object · three-quarterphotograph to come
The Keel Truss from seat height, three-quarter view. Ten acacia sticks and twelve slats, folded flat and bolted open.
FSC acacia, factory oiled · seat 344 mm · ships folded
- object · three-quarterphotograph to come
The scrap birch Keel Truss from seat height, three-quarter view. The Keel Truss cut from MakerStock's birch offcuts, for indoors, while the offcuts last.
Baltic birch offcuts · seat 344 mm · ships folded
- object · three-quarterphotograph to come
The Weekend Chair from seat height, three-quarter view. After Gerrit Rietveld's 1934 crate furniture: eighteen boards and two cleats, every cut square.
Quarter-sawn ash · eighteen boards and two cleats
- object · three-quarterphotograph to come
The scrap birch Weekend Chair from seat height, three-quarter view. The Weekend Chair in MakerStock's birch offcuts, plies showing, while the offcuts last.
Baltic birch offcuts · eighteen boards and two cleats
- studio · three-quarterphotograph to come
The Thousand-Year Chair, three-quarter view. Quarter-sawn white oak, upholstered, in a numbered edition.
Quarter-sawn white oak · upholstered · numbered edition
the drawings are free
Every chair comes with its drawings: the pattern, the cut list and the hole template, under a Creative Commons license. Parts and plans.