From The Times Online
By Lucia van der Post
Well, after Slow Food it had to come, didn’t it? Slow Design, that is. It is to the home what the Slow Food movement is to the kitchen – which is to say a return to older values, to times when instant gratification was a phrase we hadn’t yet heard of.
Just as the Slow Food movement came about because Carlo Petrini, the wonderful Italian behind it, felt that in the rush of modern life we were losing sight of the deep pleasures that come from sharing good food, lovingly prepared, with friends and family, so the Slow Home movement arose from similar impulses. It’s a reaction to the might of the mass-produced and expresses a longing for more culturally authentic and ethically made artefacts. So a Piet Hein Eek table made from discarded wood that has been transformed into a thing of beauty is Slow Design. A table made from resin and mass-produced in some anonymous far-flung factory is not.
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