Wood Bench, the adaptation of an Enzo Mari design

During the pandemic I adapted a project by Italian designer Enzo Mari from the book Autoprogettazione in which he created and collected a series of furniture that could be easily built with minimum instructions and tools (a saw and a hammer). I converted the design of Mari's chair (image below) into a bench, and adjusted the dimensions in order to minimize off-cut waste. All you need is two eight-foot-long 1x6 boards and a six-foot-long 1x2 board. I used select pine wood for a total cost of around $50 but any other soft or hard wood will work too. I attach here a PDF with the drawings and instructions to build the bench for anyone's use. I hope you enjoy it.

The bench, adaptation of the original design.

The original Enzo Mari design.

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Wood_Bench.pdf

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