This highly unusual Combines collection of furniture, by Helsinki-based furniture design studio Antti Tuomi, jettisons joinery. Instead the pieces rely on slits, straps and the occasional wedge to hold everything together.

This shelving unit is a strap-free outlier in the series:

Be sure to schedule your annual Furniture Tightening Day.

The threaded tensioning system under the stool is a much more elegant than a ratchet strap. I wonder if the stool legs lock into the seat frame to stop it sliding down the leg when it is weighted?

I've got a bookcase/shelving made out of flat boards and industrial crates, and rather than use gravity to hold it together I used a tie-down ratchet strap. These techniques look like a much more elegant purpose made solution though.

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