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Modern Vernacular

Two recent articles that touch on similar topics, discuss ideas I've thought about for a long time: the connection between rural vernacular utility and Modern aesthetic and sensibility.  I believe taking clues from objects derived out of pure necessity, can yield the best products: easy to use, nice to touch, and beautiful. 

This great article by Gabriel Hargrove, who is working on a project called "Objects of the Rural Vernacular", cites many relationships between the two and provides many examples.  He notes "this is not a call for more 'agrarian chic'"...but more to "[remind] users of the agency available to them through objects"

Best Made Company Axes

Staffan Holm Milk Stool


American pioneers had to make what they needed, with the materials immediately available to them.  Through the (re)discovery of the book American Primitives by Robert W. Miller, published in 1972, Monica Khemsurov of Sight Unseen addresses similar thoughts as above by asking designer Paul Loebach to chose his favorite items, some of which are included below.

 
























A hand-made wooden keg

a fold-able house key

and a corn grater.