Video: Mr. Squirrel Assembles a Real Good Chair
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 05. 8.08
Why is TreeHugger such a fan of flat-pack furniture? Well, it comes in tiny packages (that you can skip home from the store with) so they ship more efficiently, and anyone can turn a handful of two-dimensional pieces into three dimensions of form and structure. Blu Dot's Real Good Chair is a great example.
Check out the video for the particulars. If Mr. Squirrel can do it, so can you. ::Blu Dot Real Good Chair via ::Hatch
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Is it just me, or is the sheer amount of packaging excessive for what is being packed?
Did you see how much foam and cardboard is going to be thrown away? If it came in a much more compact package without all of the foam and cardboard packaging, it would be great.
But the fact that you end up throwing more material out than you actually use in the construction of the chair, removes any material efficiency in the shipping.
Unless the packaging is reusable in some fashion or you can send it back to them, which seems unlikely because you cut it up to get that little angle guide.
I like items that last, so I won't need a new chair next year, for example. If the seating bit is able to be bent like that, I doubt this chair will last very long.