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Don't Think. Discard!: Dirty Furniture Addresses Our Anxiety About Clutter on a Global Scale

2018-12-20T16:59:00-05:00

Founded by three design writers, Dirty Furniture is a biannual magazine that focuses on domestic design criticism, each issue taking on a different piece of furniture as its theme from which to explore topics spanning politics, design, history, technology, and beyond. Their latest focuses on the topic of closets, the modern wardrobe essential that serves as an entryway for thinking about things like moths, fashion, modularity, coming out, and the latest obsession with decluttering.

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Screen/Print #40: Alexandra Lange's "Power Positions" from Dirty Furniture, issue #2

2016-02-17T17:43:00-05:00

In the high-gloss landscape of design magazines, all tables have been wiped clean. But in practice, things get messy: our desks are cluttered, our kitchens are flecked with sauce, our careers take form or falter as we finger the seams in the Formica. In this issue of Dirty Furniture, the second in a finite series of six, an object usually shrouded by its ubiquity is illuminated by a series of essays that considers the table not just as a formal object, but also as an architecture and convention that structures our familial, social, political, and spiritual relationships.