Decade of Diversification
By Nicole Swengley for the Financial Times
In this recent article for the Financial Times, Nicole Swengley takes a look back at the last decade and the many ways in which design has transformed since the start of the new millennium.
As Swengley points out, ‘new materials, processes and technologies offer far greater freedom for today’s designers... [but] new motivations, too, are revealed in the past decade’s creations. Engaged in an increasingly direct dialogue with homeowners, creatives strive both to address the problems of modern living and react to broader social, cultural, political and environmental issues.’
In this article, Swengley takes readers through a year by year analysis of change illustrated by a series of archetypal objects beginning with Marcel Wanders ‘VIP’ chair of 2000 and culminating with Front’s ‘Blow Away’ vase.
