Simple things like scissors made to look like a bird’s beak, embroidered everything, scrolling details on metal spoons and clawed feet on furniture… tiny buttons, fancy thimbles! Why so many details for every little thing? Might be a silly question, sorry.
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It’s a good question. But the answer lies somewhere between the fact that modern fashion tends to be more minimalist and that back then people put more time and therefore, love into whatever they were crafting. It’s perhaps a chicken and egg thing here. I would say the latter is more accurate an answer and that our minimalist styles perhaps were born from mass production. I think if I were hand-making a button or a spoon and it had taken a lot of my time and attention I’d perhaps want it to stand out a bit. I think the fact that antiques are unique and detailed reflects the love that was put into it and it’s no surprise that antiques are so sought after in the modern day – in a similar way people want to be different in a world that is unfortunately driving us towards uniformity and dullness. As a quick example, long ago there would be millions of shops making spoons, now I imagine most will come from a handful of companies like IKEA and be distributed by Amazon. I think much like a lot of other things, manufactured goods are suffering an identity crisis.
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