It takes an age of democratic peace and plenty to produce gimcrackery. Will furniture, like houses, revert to a more substantial form? We know, all the too well, the type that could never survive anywhere within sound of a falling bomb. Having been blown together in the first instance, it would take so very, very little to blow it apart.
It seems to me that we may live to see a definite revival of craftsmanship in furniture making, because strength and soundness of construction, which have been the least of our demands in the latter years of this industrial civilization, will have acquired a new importance.
Or rather, one would say, their old importance.
— The Woodworker, January 1940
Enjoying the pics!! Keep them coming!!
Thanks for introducing me to the word "Gimcrackery". I want to scream this word the
next time I find myself forced to walk into a crate and barrel. They did sell us
a nice set of chefs knives one.
Yes, "gimcrackery".
A keeper for my very special lexicon of descriptive terms for crap. Now I have a noun to follow my favorite adjective, "slapdash".