Lego Workbenches

Last week, we received a treat of an email from Douglas Lambert, who recreated three workbenches from “Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use” by Christopher Schwarz* in Lego form, and sent us detailed plans for each: “The Nicholson” “Le Roubo” “Ye Knockdown Nicholson” You can download the plans for free at each of the links above. We reached out to Lambert to learn more about him and his work. “I’m a video editor from Brazil, living in São Paulo,” he says. “I love Lego – it’s been a passion of mine since I was a kid – but I also have a big fascination with woodworking (my grandfather was a woodworker, so I think I got it from him). For a brief period of time, I actually tried to be a woodworker, but I couldn’t really do it because I just don’t have the space for a working woodshop in my apartment. So, I started reading a bunch of stuff about it and decided that if I couldn’t be a ‘physical woodworker,’ I could be like an ‘academic woodworker’ in a sort of way. I…