More Purpose-Built Furniture: Sewing Baskets for Broad, Shallow Storage
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Sure, eBay can be a depository for people’s unwanted junk, but it can also be a good source of design inspiration if you look in certain areas. If casting about for more examples of purpose-built furniture like the sewing desk I showed you in the last entry, you’re bound to come back with a netful of interesting images. Sewing-related furniture, it turns out, is quite the treasure trove of primitive design innovation.
Unfortunately the average Joe helping Aunt Nettie clear out her attic is unconcerned with design provenance; pieces are nearly always undated, unattributed and/or unnamed, leaving you to guess at their country or decade of origin, to say nothing of the original designer. But at least then you can just focus on the object, unfettered by the minutiae we were forced to memorize in History of Industrial Design class.
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