Will there be antique furniture in the future?
Given that furniture these days all seems to be made from veneered particle board or mdf; no mortise and tenon or dovetail joints – just plastic fixings, which loosen and fall to bits if you move it too much. (Ikea – please take note.)
In fact, nothing that makes for a lasting piece of furniture that will improve with age, care and polishing.
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Maybe in a museum but most stuff is too cheap to last for personal collectors
You can still find new quality furniture. And after 100 years, it will officially be considered antique, provided the world doesn’t end in the mean time. Yes, Ikea has cheap furniture, but what do you expect? They’re like the Wal-Mart of the furniture industry. Those particle board furnishings are very economic though, and environmentally friendly, as 80% of the world’s hard woods are harvested from the rainforest… the ones used in making quality furnishings.
But you forget all the stuff made before that is considered antique! The stuff from fifty/sixty plus years ago and older should do pretty good, and pre-20th century stuff will still be around… so they’ll have antiques…
And the historians will wonder what we used for furniture… unless they dig through our dumps and use a lot of glue…
Flippin’ awesome question! Amazing what crap we build today.
-dh
my opinion is
what we call it antiques these days
will be more valuable and much more reliable than the future antiques.
today’s staff will be the future antiques, but u never know what will be the future products that will be compared to ours which are caleed antiques..
i think it will be even worse than our’s and that’s the good reason they will think it’s good antiques upon there view not ours!!
of course!! antique funiture will not fade away..its like history and diamonds(forever)
There is still some good quality furniture being made today, but like anything qualty, it has its premium price. But the best ‘antique’ furniture of the future will probably be the same as what’s considered antique now.
interesting observation…
i understand what you’re saying, but you’re wrong. there is high quality furniture being crafted. there’s a little place right down the street from me that turns out very nice furniture.
it’s a mistake to think all furniture made a hundred years ago was of high quality. it was not. what has lasted as collectable antiques was exceptional.
it is a shame, however, that craftsmanship has gone down the toilet in favor of cheap disposable krap. but go out and try to find quality lumber. it has become quite rare. this is the price we pay for consumerism.
of cause when your old your furniture will Antique
the only antique furniture we will have in our world are ones from the most glories moments in the history ( Louis XV , Empire , Directoire , ……)and these time period will never happened again so i think we will not have any antique furniture in the future