PRIMARY ISSUE
Today people move apartments often in Manhattan, people therefore buy cheap furniture, borrow furniture or find furniture on the street because they don't want to invest or commit to buy nice quality pieces of furniture as they don't know how long they will stay in same apartment. On the other hand people appreciate good craftsmanship, good materials and design details.
SECONDARY ISSUE
As people move more often, storage in Manhattan is becoming more and more important or full.
DESIGN PROBLEM
How can there be both, furniture that can be moved around (flat packed) and good quality furniture with good craftsmanship, materials and design details.
STAKEHOLDERS:
Manhattan storage in New York- how it is growing a lot.
Moving companies in New York – to identify process of moving in New York.
Auction house specialist in Christie’s or Sotheby’s for furniture, and how they deal with storage.
Ikea: how it was founded. Why there was a market for Ikea.
Arjun Appadurai- Look at globalization –media and migration.
Mark Drayse- and his book growth and change- how “furniture manufacturing has experienced rapid globalization in recent years.”
Jennifer Carpenter – the furniture she designed
Kreig’s list – how it works and how many people in Manhattan use it to move apartments and buy furniture.
Krystian Kwiecinski - Parametric table- why he chose to make a piece that flat pack and choice of design.
Ryan sorrell - why he designed clamped table.
1 comment:
Okay, so I just looked up Krystian Kwieciński and checked out the table. Very cool. do you know these guys? I see they are from Barcelona and Warsaw, but they are also here in NYC. What do you know about them?
I am guessing that you will be working on furniture that is modular, easy-to-assemble, manufacture and ship, but that is really beautiful and heirloom quality, worth keeping. It seems to me that you are lamenting our disposable culture not because you think we should all stay in the same houses for 40 years, but because you hate the idea that, just because we all have decided to move around constantly, we can't surround ourselves with beautiful objects that we will want to take with us in our nomadic wandering. Portable objects that are made of fine materials and especially satisfying. They usually have clever and subtle mechanisms for folding and storing.
But I may be completely wrong about what you are contemplating. In any event, you need to reach some conclusion. Let me know if you need help researching this on the Internet.
steven
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