http://www.metafilter.com/tags/furnituredesign Posts tagged with 'furnituredesign' at MetaFilter. Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:59:33 -0800 Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:59:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/28625/Modern%2DFurniture%2DDesign <a href="http://www.dwr.com/designers.cfm">Is This All There Is To Modern Design?</a> Although <a href="http://www.dwr.com">Design Within Reach</a> is a commercial website, it's well put together, with <a href="http://www.dwr.com/bydesigner.cfm?id=55">interesting features</a> that provide <a href="http://www.dwr.com/designers.cfm?designer_id=210">biographies</a> and a a potted history of modern furniture design. However, like the plethora of coffee-table books on the subject, the uncomfortable (!) feeling remains that it crystalizes the accepted and the historical - the so-called <b>modern classics</b> - rather than engage with what is truly contemporary. This is, after all, highly <i>traditional</i> modernism and post-modernism. And it's <a href="http://www.arqashop.com/templates/17741/index2.cfm">rife</a>. Where is the avant-garde? Is there one on view to ordinary mortals? You end up feeling that the truly new designs - this century's, after all - are being swept under the carpet, awaiting some boring committee process of consensus and approval. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28625 Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:59:33 -0800 architecture design designwithinreach furniture furnituredesign MiguelCardoso