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Ratna Pradipta

Flat-pack furniture designer

Furniture you cut from flat sheets, and how to design your own

I’m Ratna. I design flat-pack furniture cut from plywood, and I sell cut files, joint test sheets and design worksheets, plus two video courses.

Design
Slot stool
Parts
8
Plan sheets
4
Material
Birch plywood
In the set
Slot Stool Cut Files

$12

Get the plans

Slot stool, taken apart

Every part, by number

  1. Seat top320 × 320 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 1
  2. Leg panel, left420 × 300 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 2
  3. Leg panel, right420 × 300 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 2
  4. Cross brace, long300 × 60 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 3
  5. Cross brace, short240 × 60 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 3
  6. Foot rail, front320 × 40 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 4
  7. Foot rail, back320 × 40 × 12 mm · Birch plywood · Sheet 4
  8. Locking wedges, set of 440 × 20 × 6 mm · Birch plywood · Lesson 4

The plans

Cut files and sheets

Online course

My course

Printed to order

Merch

Ratna walking through a shared workshop past a laser cutter

About

Hello, I’m Ratna

I trained as a product designer and now spend most days in a shared workshop with a laser cutter, a sanding bench and a crate of offcuts. I design stools, lamps and small tables that come apart into flat pieces and go together again without glue, screws or a single tool. If it needs a hammer, I have done it wrong.

The furniture I build is for my own flat and for friends. What I sell is the part that is useful to you: the cut files I have tested, the sheets that help you check a joint before you waste a whole panel, and two video courses for people who want to design a first piece of their own.

Offcut Notes

A short letter every other Thursday from the workshop: one design, one joint I changed and one thing to try.

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