‘Build a Chair from Bulls%$t’ – Plans & Complete Instructions

It might seem like this book came out of nowhere – like shit from a goose. And that it just plopped into your email inbox like an unwanted U2 album. Will you be scraping it off your shoe in short order?

I hope not. I’ve been thinking about the chair in this book since working on “The Anarchist’s Design Book” 13 years ago. I’d planned to include a chair in ADB that was built from home-center materials (especially the plywood arm). But I chickened out.

I think I had to first get a little older and care even less about what others thought about me and my work.

So here it is.

The book as-is is illustrated with drawings that I made in SketchUp and Illustrator. These scratchings will be replaced by professional line drawings when we go to press. If you find factual errors in the text, please let me know in the comments. Note that we have a particular “house style” here at Lost Art Press for grammar and capitalization. So if you give us crap about the Oxford comma, we’re just going to ignore your comment. And no one has edited it or copy edited it yet. So there are typos and dropped words.

In addition to the book, below is also a pdf of the full-size patterns for the chair. You can print these out at any reprographics firm or office supply store that can print 22" x 34". There also are old-fashioned gridded drawings in the back of the book that allow you to make your own patterns from scratch.

If you build the chair – this chair and not some other chair – please take a photo and hold onto it. When we release the book, we are going to offer a free merit badge in Bulls%$t Chairmaking.

I hope you enjoy the book. It’s a quick read.