Hasta La Ideas

Ernie Beck visits BKLYN DESIGNS and writes up his impressions on Design Observer. Here’s the (bitter)sweet spot:

All well and good to think green down to the publicity materials; every little bit helps when it comes to saving the Earth. But why does it have to be so, well, dull? And expensive, especially because most of what we saw lacked, for the most part, any genuine sense of freshness and excitement. I’m inclined to think that scrap lumber picked up on the street and fashioned into a lovely polished table top might be cheaper than what you’d pay a bunch for at Design Within Reach. After all, the materials are cheap. To be sure, much work, thought and person-hours goes into creating these eco-designs. Yet there was little on hand that tugged at my wallet, my heart and my green guilt and said, “Take me home now, I must have it, and we’ll save the polar bears too.”

Read the whole thing here.

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