Asa Christiana, Editor of FineWoodworking magazine, posted earlier today an article entitled Is Danish Modern the furniture style of our time?
Asa and the art director were “…looking for a modern credenza to go under a flat-screen TV, we may have stumbled onto the answer…” The article ends with the following:
It is easy to look back on furniture history, and see how 18th-century styles, followed by Shaker and Arts & Crafts, each arose from a specific culture and commercial context. Is it even possible for a cohesive style to coalesce out of today’s fractured culture, with mass-production of disposable goods dominating commerce? And does Danish Modern hold the key?
— Asa Christiana, Editor, FineWoodworking.com
December 23, 2009
This particular article hit a cord in me. Why? Because Neil Lamens and I touched on this very topic in October 2008. Neil graciously agreed to be my guest at that interview. We talked about many topics, but a key item of that interview has stuck with me since then. In the text I asked the question, ‘What has transpired since the bean bag chair, “a living form”‘?
I invite you to download the podcast, listen to it, and then read Asa’s article at the link I provided. Please let me know what you think – but I request that you also leave a comment for Asa at their website.
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— Al Navas
LOL Neil! We must do it again, and see what develops that is leading-edge, once more.
Hey Al…………….great minds……..obviously our topic was ahead of the curve. Over the past year, I’ve been very busy deciphering further and have come to my own conclusions. That post at FWW is still way behind the curve, but I guess its just written to stir something sorta like a post I read on being a woodworking entrepreneur with no stated course.
You may have said it best in Oct of 2008……….we need a movement!!!!
Neil