The amount of wood needed to make a chair. (Smith College Museum of Art)

    by frankenbacon1

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    1. technically you only need the wood in the shape of a chair in this picture to make the chair

    2. The artist used a half log to make the chair and so this is the chair and the all the offcuts and chips. Not sure the point they’re trying to get to as the amount of off cuts and scraps is the result of the chair design.

    3. And all of those wood are organic which could be further utilized into something else. Unlike a plastic chair.

    4. Listen i have seen both traditional and industrial methods of making chairs and now this, this is by far the most wasteful way to mak a chair I have ever seen, I know the message artist is trying to convey is of waste ecology and most likely human greed, but what they conveyed instead is that they suck at carpentry and should never be allowed near it.

    5. Felix_Von_Doom on

      Whoever was the creator of this particular chair is a gratuitous waster of material.

    6. Significant-Cloud- on

      Feels like you could make 5 more chairs from the leftovers. If the “artist” wants to make the point that chairs are wasteful, maybe they should have… honestly, I have no idea. The whole thing feels stupid.

    7. Appropriate-Log8506 on

      Correction: the amount of wood this idiot needed to make a chair without a seat.

    8. So, they just put the off-cuts and chips/sawdust in front of it? Did they mention, in their statement, that most of what’s not used to make the chair can then be used for something else?

    9. spacebarstool on

      Its an art installation.

      It is not a tutorial or the most efficient way to make a chair out of wood.

    10. You should buy from local producers. Those guys will customize your chair to your needs, almost never waste any material, and offer you repair services too.

    11. Kiria-Nalassa on

      people are calling this wasteful, but I don’t see why. The rest can be used as fire wood. Those small pieces especially are great for getting a fire started

    12. AtmosphereRecent7717 on

      idiot wasted wood trying to make a chair without a seat. I’m betting he didn’t even make it and just bought the chair and tossed random bits of wood together.

    13. So an artist, who apparently knows very little about carpentry and wood working, made a “chair” with no seat or arms, wasted an ton of wood in the process, and is trying to make a point? What’s the point? That they suck at wood working?

    14. HumaDracobane on

      That is what you get for ask that to someone from Arts instead of a propper carpenter.

      That would be like taking down an entire oak to make one wooden spoon.

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