When we visited The International Contemporary Furniture Fair last year, we were disappointed by the cheesiness of many of the mainstream products. They’d looked so beautiful in photographs but were very different in person. We spent a good 3 hours wandering up and down the aisles learning some few unexpected lessons about shopping for housewares and furniture. Oh well.
Dig these two very different chairs…
…like nothing you’d see from big manufacturers…
We were even inspired by the plywood simple displays: ideas for diy stands to use at home out of our favorite material.
This work reminded us of Creative Director Niels Strøyer Christophersen’s very good advice about buying furniture, that we read recently at Kinfolk:
He’s discovered that slowly gathering your favorite pieces over time is essential to interior decorating. ‘Try to see it as a process: It’s all right to wait for the right object to come instead of going to a warehouse and buying all of your furniture. Create a nice little museum of beautiful memories.’
