Does your furniture have a passport"In most homes there is at least one piece of furniture that will have travelled through time and crossed country and borders with its protective owner. One of the FOUNDiiD partners has a modest coffee table which has been with him since the 1980s. This humbly crafted piece of furniture has lived in North London, on the English Coast, in East London, and now Limassol. In interior design, furniture can carry the strongest meaning for us in terms of owned objects.
The character of this human-object relationship is vividly described in a study called ?Emotionalism in Furniture Design?. It says that it is ?vital that designers understand how strong the connection can be. It’s so strong that people will keep a piece of furniture in their home for years and years, even after it’s broken. Maybe they never even particularly liked it, but it holds so much meaning to them. They are in a relationship with it and completely attached to it so they can never let it go.  That is an astonishingly powerful connection. One which really lives with the owner at a basic level. One which fulfils meaningful and emotional needs?.   Price to Pride
For the greatest part of the past 50 years the emotional importance of furniture design has been largely neglected. The most common concern was the cost and potential financial return of furniture investments. Look at furniture simply in economic terms, the most impactful trend in home interior desi...