What Was Design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest furniture design old things and new things

old things and new things

multiplying perspectives and bringing their own authentic experiences and lived histories into conversation — resulting in a range of stories representing both dominant and minority cultures

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Diane Arbus

a sensory feast unfolds where layers of history and culture are proudly served up – one plate at a time

What Was Design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest furniture design old things and new thingsWhat was design? is a quick starter to one of modernitys most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, design was subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought. While answers to the question What is design? are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective.