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# Open Desk
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/open-desk/
- Published: 2013-08-19T16:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:49.000Z
- Description: The team behind Wikihouse launches an open design project for furniture.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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London design and strategy practice behind [Wikihouse](http://www.wikihouse.cc/?ref=protein.xyz), [00:/](http://www.project00.net/?ref=protein.xyz) has launched another open-design initiative with [Open Desk](https://www.opendesk.cc/?ref=protein.xyz). The project’s website functions as a hub to unite those in need of utilitarian furniture with a network of local CNC makers. By providing four degrees of completion – plans, for the experienced carpenter capable of building furniture from scratch; sawn, raw wood cut by CNC machine; flatpack, cut, oiled and ready to be assembled; and built and delivered – the furniture is accessible to anyone both in terms of price and ability.  
  
Initiatives like Open Desk and others like [FabHub](https://www.fabhub.io/?ref=protein.xyz) are quietly transforming furniture design with endless options, stealth localism and a remixed DIY spirit, embodied in projects like [Timber](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/07/diy-furniture?ref=protein.xyz). Add to that curveballs in 3D printing – check out [Making Guns](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/06/making-guns?ref=protein.xyz) – and we’re bound to continue seeing rapid innovation at the intersection of furniture design and making in the near future.

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