It’s Not Just Wayfair: Why Does ALL Of Your Furniture Fall Apart?
Interesting commentary on what happened to the furniture industry in the United States.
Because it was replaced by cheap garbage.
Saved you a click. The video was pretty informative though.
Everything is cheap garbage in the U.S. Except our healthcare, which is expensive, but also cheap garbage.
A little rough around the details (pine is not a hardwood, and MDF and chipboard are just as heavy as wood), but yeah, generally this is spot on.
I will say that just at a design level, a single-pillar end table is never going to handle the sledgehammer test very well compared to a four-legged design, but once you’re through the initial clickbait moment, that old Ethan Allen piece is very much better made.
It’s not hard to find, it’s just expensive.
The United States still has a furniture industry?
There are still workshops putting out high quality pieces for custom orders.
South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio are the centers of US furniture making.
Yes, but it’s expensive.
It’s odd because from what I can gather from things like youtube it seems like woodworking is huge there (and they say wood is cheap there too), so I’d imagine there should be a considerable amount of people doing furniture.
Contrasting to the situation here where people doing hand-maded furniture is lowering their prices so much trying to keep up with the ikea-type of shit (and of course doing things with superior quality).
Labor is still expensive.
Lots of labor needed if it’s not mass produced on an assembly line.
