4 November 2006
Do-It-Yourself designer furniture
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For most of history we have made nearly everything we needed - we grew our own food, we cooked, we hand-sewed our clothes, and built our furniture and houses.
It is only relatively recently - since the industrial revolution - that we have gone out of the house to purchase our food, our clothes and buy the things we need from day to day.
But there's a wave of indie entrepreneurs tapping back into the dying art of making stuff, and re-vitalising the craft movement - and even our skills.
On By Design meet Grace Hawthorne and Shoshana Berger, who in 2001 founded ReadyMade, a magazine for people sick of identifit interiors and looking for some kind of design 'edge'. For example, they show us how to make an Eames shelf, or a Marcel Wanders-inspired object. They have just published their first book, Ready Made, in response to the booming DIY craft boom.
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Guests
Shoshana Berger
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, ReadyMade Magazine
Grace Hawthorne
Founder and President/Publisher, ReadyMade Magazine
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