are united by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or re-purposed. They make a subset of an expanding global D.I.Y. movement, itself a huge tent of philosophies and manifestoes including but not confined to anticonsumerism, antiglobalism, environmentalism and all-purpose iconoclasm. NYT | Slideshow | previously
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See also "Flatpack Furniture" by Maarten Baas
pretty soon people will stop with their nice suv's and pick on my trash. i should put a sign on my bin saying,
"don't bother nothing to make!"
we are a designer nation now. i am already thinking that guy's guitar would make a nice cheese board, restoring back to its original state.
and, have my eyes set on the broken ikea chairs table to make an aquarium. got to have it.
wait... i am hooked...
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