So you’re about to grab your iPad and head out to the coffeehouse to squeeze in a work session over some hot chai and chili. Wouldn’t it be helpful (and less messy) if you had a carry-along stand to tilt up your tablet while you chow down? Solution: Bring along Plydea’s configurable PlyPad.

Or your son decides mid-year to drop out of the dorms and move into an off-campus apartment with nary a stick of furniture to his name, then calls to plaintively complain in that charmingly boyish way “What am I going to sit on?”.  Solution: You tactfully refrain from the obvious answer and mail him a Plydea Blue 7 Chair instead.

Seattle’s Chas Fisher designs Plydea’s sustainable solid birch plywood furniture and accessories to be totally packable and easily mailable. His useful creations ship flat and assemble in minutes, requiring neither tools nor fasteners. Practicality aside, they’re lean, clean and graceful, a tribute to the company’s philosophy that “transparent function should create its own pleasing form”. Well said and nicely done.

Or your stylish sister and her husband decide to move up to tundra country, and as much as you want to bring them a house-warming gift mid-February in the blowing snow, you just can’t inspire yourself to that kind of sibling loyalty. So what to do about a supercool housewarmer? Solution: Send them Plydea’s WineHold Wine Rack and gift them a Wine-of-the-Month Club membership. That will warm their frozen toes!

The Lincoln-Log-and-Lego-lovin’ kid in me is just slap-happy at the idea that I can put together the stately Rinaldo Chair in just minutes from just 8 pieces, or the 7-piece Tuffet Stool, no tools required. It’s true…if this little guy can do it, so can I, and so can you!

You can purchase Plydea’s full line of great birch plywood home decor items at the Plydea Etsy shop.

This post was provided by Nik, our newest contributor and self-described metalsmith-gemologist-designer and artist.