🌱 The anarchist design book

Finished 2022-02-12

You just have to start thinking like an orthopedist instead of an oil painter.

Well-built furniture - made by hand or power - has remained something only for the wealthy. Cheap, poorly manufactured furniture will always outsell expensive, well-made stuff. Our economy, at least at this particular consumerist phase, is ruled by price. I have concluded that either most furniture buyers cannot tell the difference between crap and craftsmanship, or they do not care. So - and this is important - we cannot look to furniture manufacturers to give us good places to sit, eat and store things. We need to look elsewhere. I propose a new and most certainly doomed furniture movement. Here is the gist; The only way that most of us can own good furniture’s to make it for ourselves.

Photos are lying bitches

Technical knowledge is harder to kill than any other kind, and is seldom subjected to religious, political, or military persecution.

debate define points if you will. Or build stuff.

“The things we make show to the world what we are. The furniture of a period is a sure index to the ideals and aspirations of that period - or to the lack of them. – Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher

Finishing a piece of furniture with soap is no stranger than covering wood with a bug excretion (shellac), tree sap (varnish), bee stuff (wax)or rendered flax seed (lacquer).