Originally published in 1910, this unusual book is about making
furniture by hand using old boxes and crates. From the author's
preface: "Two summers on the island of Spitzbergen taught me, more
than all previous experiments, the latent possibilities of a box.
Our camp was located seven hundred miles north of the Arctic
Circle; Hammerfest, Norway, 535 miles to the southeast, was the
nearest point from which supplies could be obtained. Ice and snow
cut off the settlement from the outside world for eight months of
the year. The provisions and other equipment necessary for the camp
of eighty miners and workmen had to be carried in boxes on the
ships that came from the mainland during the four summer months.
When the portable house which was to be the home of the manager,
his wife, and myself as their guest, had been put up and the
supplies unpacked, the boxes began to accumulate. ... No lumber was
available in Spitzbergen. ... cut off from materials the
possibilities of the box seemed greater than ever, and the work,
which daily grew in interest, commenced. As I worked in that
far-off marvelous land of continuous day, surrounded by mountains
and glaciers, I felt anew the truth, so familiar to all, that work
to be of real value must be honest, useful, and beautiful..." With
instructions on how to make 100 different items of useful furniture
from boxes and cargo crates; including jardiniere, plant box,
footstool, clock case, wall rack, washstand, bookcases, desk, game
table, umbrella stand, nursery table, picture frames, corner seats,
etc. etc.
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