weekly Objet library

The more wear stories, the richer the object.

Getting rid of everything was necessary. I had to create space. When I arrived at the Barcelona airport with my suitcase (and recently acquired carry-on), I was struck by the overwhelming sense of freedom. I could go anywhere and be anyone.

One of the things I’ve discovered with buildings, particularly your so-called “high-road buildings” is they can become more amazing as time goes on. As that process proceeds, they are buildings that come to be loved. And once they’re loved, they’re safe, by and large. So the quality of mastery can be in the quality of the materials and crafting of a thing that invites that kind of caring, that will keep the thing going.

“They have to try on every single piece in the store,” Green said. “See where it’s made, what it’s made from, learn why it costs what it costs, the fit, the stitching, the trims, so they can talk about it all.”

Instead actively and continually design the system to prevent Stuff from accumulating and to make it easier to regularly prune Stuff.

because we might be all status-seeking monkey anyway. and because “at the same time, taste games are supposed to be human nature.”