Paul Smith in the FT How to Spend It magazine advising contrarily exactly how not to, by embracing slow design, imperfection and the art of collecting.
“people commission interior designers and have beautiful houses, but they often lack a strong personal connection to the owner. Another way of doing it is to build up your interior over time, by buying pieces when you travel or spontaneously when you see them. To me, home is made up of all those things you’ve collected in life.”
This makes me ask if living the throwaway-life is a generational thing. Growing up in the 70’s we not only had no money, there was nothing to buy anyway. Hard to imagine no on-line, takeaways, gadgets, Ikea, cheap flights, instead a lot of charity shopping and letter writing.
Will we revert in the wake of climate emergency, social inequality, Ukraine, cost of living crisis and Brexit consequences and reconsider our buying habits?
