Ten Essentials

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Home Design

Jun 16, 2004

Do you have the 10 essentials? Brooklyn designer, David Metzger, has solved all your problems. With 10 pieces of furniture, your apartment is done! Having designed furniture for architects for years, he launched his 10 Essentials line four years ago in an effort to solve the biggest and most common problems that architects and interior designers were constantly coming to him with. An unabashed lover of clean, modern furniture, Metzger has boiled all of his knowledge down into 10 classic solutions that can work across a broad spectrum of contemporary interiors.

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I couldn't disagree w/ Ange more; I'm a graduate student, but someday (soon) I won't be. Somehow, Ange's class angst has passed me by; I expect that in a few years, I'll be able to afford furniture like this, if it's my priority at the time.

If I want generic beige transitional crap, I can go to any furniture wholesaler in any exurb in this country. I come to AT to see the exceptional, which is implicitly a non-egalitarian pinnacle. Sometimes AT's ideas involve how to achieve the exceptional cheaply, with much effort; other ideas display outstanding products that take less effort.

Neither is Middle America, but neither is "classist" or foolish.

Ange, people may be unable to pay for this furniture and still want items that are decently made. I'm not sure one can find that reliably in our society, but one way or the other, AT is not responsible for a social justice deficit in our country. Those people aren't AT's problem. Rahul S. on Sep 16, 2008

I think it's a little classist and naive for anyone to get on someone's case for stating what many people who read this site are probably thinking, "who can afford this kind of stuff?". I make a decent living and am in grad school and I'm sorry I can't really afford to go anywhere else but Ikea and retailers of that ilk. Stop being so "let them eat cake" when someone expresses what I feel is a fairly normal response to furnishings that cost more than what most people make in a month. 4800 dollars for a bookshelf? oh come on now!

It's so classist to be such a slave to "craftsmanship" and all that foolishness and not be aware that some people are simply UNABLE to pay that kind of money but still want items that are decently made.

I look at these items and realize, that perhaps this site and for that matter the book "apartment therapy" isn't really speaking to me so i guess it was a good thing that I did not purchase the book, even though it gets rave reviews from my friends who happened to be mostly upper middle class doctors or people living on trust funds. Ange on Mar 15, 2007