Something that’s been popping up recently, and quite a bit for that matter, is the concept of re-purposing older, no longer useful things as luxury items. Now I don’t mean the used pencils I have all over my apartment, or maybe digging bottles out of the trash, I mean something that tells a story.
Something like fashioning luggage from pieces of hundred year old sunken ships from the bottom of the ocean. Or perhaps chairs made from old planes?
In any case, this looks to be a trend born out of the huge surge in DiY we saw a year ago and the movements of both Steampunk and Dieselpunk. We’ve also seen this approaching from a different angle; anti-technology as a luxury. We’re talking wrist watches, extravagant phones, retro entertainment- all of it slowing down, incredibly detailed and usually something with an interesting story tied to it. We’re coming full circle, where the newer generations had full embraced and immersed themselves in technology – now as they’re growing older, they’re re-discovering life before the internet and modernism.
