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Posted by josh in Design Blog on February 16, 2010 | No Comments

Selling direct

Yesterday I went to the Buyers Market of American Crafts, a huge wholesale craft market run by Wendy Rosen twice yearly at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. More than 1500 craft artists bring their wares and try and fill their order books with business from galleries and shops across the country. Every...
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Posted by josh in Design Blog on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Craft Furniture Movement and the three P’s

The modern craft furniture renaissance is a largely American phenomenon  dating from the late 1940’s. It blended both homegrown and foreign influences. Wharton Esherick and George Nakashima, both based in the Philadelphia area, were at the core of this movement. And yet both, while embracing a...
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Posted by josh in Design Blog on February 1, 2010 | No Comments

Cross Fertilization

In my last design blog I talked about the potential for artisan made furniture to function as a kind of probe or avant garde for the broader world of industrial design. I can think of no better example of this sort of thing than the work of Rich Tannen. Rich, who teaches Furniture at Rochester Institute of...
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Posted by josh in Design Blog on January 28, 2010 | No Comments

Where we are today

Most everyone is familiar with the most famous line of the 1967 film, “The Graduate”. The young character played by Dustin Hoffman, home from college and confused about his future, is cornered by a friend of his parents. In a conspiratorial tone he offers advice about the future, whispering one...
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Posted by josh in Design Blog on January 22, 2010 | No Comments

A New Feature

Welcome to Design Blog, a new feature of the PhilaIFS website. This space will be a home for the thoughts of the show director and the reactions of exhibitors, attendees and the on-line followers of the show. We are now just a little over two months out from the show and today I started to feel the swell of...
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