A World of Vernacular Furniture: The Orkney Chair
The study of vernacular furniture can teach us a lot about not only the development of understandings of furniture, nor only of the development of societies and cultures, nor nor only only about relationships between furniture and wider realities, but also how the position of furniture as a cultural good, as a good embedded in a culture and society, can see furniture serve as a component of projected understandings of heritage and identity, and in doing so can endow attributes on an object of furniture it doesn’t naturally, inherently, possess.
Or need.
Something particularly well expressed in the (hi)stories of the straw-backed chair, a.k.a. the Orkney Chair1
Radio smow: A Shelving Playlist…….
Following the #smowblogfact revelation from Vitra Work at Orgatec Cologne 2018 that the smow blog office is devoid of shelving, we were inundated with an e-mail asking why? why has the smow blog office no shelving….?
A very simple question, and one which for the first time caused us to pose ourselves a much more fundamental question, why? why, has the smow blog office no shelving….?
Considerations which quickly evolved and diverged to concern themselves with the more general questions of what, how, when and why shelving…….
