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.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      There are still workshops putting out high quality pieces for custom orders.

      South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio are the centers of US furniture making.

      • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        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).

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          Labor is still expensive.

          Lots of labor needed if it’s not mass produced on an assembly line.