Little did I know

 For 35 years I was involved in the wholesale art industry basically supplying art to Furniture and Department stores as well as to catalog houses and Interior Designers.  I went to shows in High Point, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta and Tupelo.

I had no idea that at those shows there was always an element of HIGH END DESIGN being displayed at various showrooms within shouting distance of the "regular" showrooms.

The knockoff business within the Furniture Industry is not a secret and probably 90 percent of what is made and manufactured is the direct result of someone stealing an idea and then making production pieces so that sales can happen on a large scale.

In the art part of that industry there are original ideas that are mass produced....but to be honest the quality of the work, when mass produced, is done quickly and without much intensity or creativity.

I just watched a video on PAUL EVANS who died in 1987 and designed product for Directional Furniture.  His concepts of mid-century contemporary and brutalist designs were quite different and today those pieces sell at prices that designate the work as unique pieces of Art.

This cabinet sells for around a hundred thousand dollars.....

EVANS

The artists that worked for high-end clientele had very little exposure to the mass market unless their pieces got knocked off and made with inferior materials.

I'm bringing this up because I think that's exactly what has happened to our present political situations.

IT'S A KNOCKOFF

AND

IT

IS

OBVIOUSLY

INFERIOR

We need to replace IT with something that is functional and original and looks beautiful....and appeals to 80 percent of the population.

I'm looking around and so far I'm not seeing anyone who can fit that bill.

How about you?

See anything and anybody that might work?