weekly Objet library
The more wear stories, the richer the object.
Talking with Kestin about stories from Scotland, creative inspiration, and making clothes for a living
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quality products that last from Scotland
my goals of buying things of quality and character, objects with a story to tell
Repair, maintenance, and restoration are about building more intimate, meaningful relationships with the things around us
Repairs store and tell stories. They are the equivalent of scars on objects.
Repaired objects help us redefine beauty.
Repair replaces wastefulness and shallowness with meaning and care.
Repairing makes us truly empowered and responsible owners of our objects as opposed to mere consumers.
Sincerity is a form of counterculture in a society plagued by post-irony. Master your consumer impulses. Do things slowly and intentionally. Not just in your personal relationships, but in the mundanities of the day-to-day.
Instead actively and continually design the system to prevent Stuff from accumulating and to make it easier to regularly prune Stuff.