![]() And quality doesn’t come cheap! But it also means that artisans have begun to come to us because they know that we will honor them and their work (and now that we’re five years in we do have something to show for ourselves). It’s becoming a harder and harder proposition in this world of mass consumption and fast fashion to make things of quality and still stay afloat. I’m not interested in mass producing objects, but I am interested in properly compensating the people whose work I value. But we also do lots of research, and we look for people who are working in a slow, careful and sustainable manner. ![]() Thanks to years of traveling in art and design circles professionally, it’s not been terribly difficult to discover or meet artists or artisans who share Permanent Collection’s values. How do you find artisans and makers that resonate with the idea of forever pieces? I want people to buy things only if they love them, and I want them to last forever and ever and ever. I hope that the objects Permanent Collection offers reflect a similar level of consideration. I chose the name because it carried in it that allusiveness, the implication that whatever object has been deemed worthy of acquisition has been measured according to a rubric of timeless value, eternal relevance, and beauty. Permanent Collection was named after the ’permanent collections’ of every great museum around the world, the core collections on which museums are built. How does the name of the company reflect your values when it comes to items of the home? Things that would take on the same heirloom quality as those pieces I grew up with. Having always loved the slowly-acquired, antique pieces in her kitchen collection as a child - a natural inclination, I suppose, to become attached to objects (how un-Buddhist of me!) - perhaps it was a natural thing to want to develop a line of functional design objects down the road. She is very particular about beauty, and about quality, and very rigorous in her approach to design. Growing up in my mother, Alice Waters‘s household also helped form my aesthetic sensibility. What I really hope for in 2022 is to pare down this professional landscape and to focus on those things that are really nourishing to me, giving them my (much less divided) attention.Ĭan you tell us a bit about what inspired you to co-found Permanent Collection?Īll my time studying art (I have a PhD in art history) and looking at objects and thinking about what gives something enduring, time-defying qualities, made me curious to see if I could develop a line of objects that contained within them those same attributes. I wear a lot of hats, from founder of Permanent Collection, to art critic, to recipe developer, memoirist, cook, art historian, etc. I’ve always been someone who has 100 professional irons in the fire at once. What the pandemic has taught me, if anything, is that even in very abnormal times, even in periods of extended isolation, and alienation from what we might describe as our habitual lifestyles, time moves exceptionally quickly. ![]() REV On Air: Sustainable Beauty & Conservation with Francisco Costa of Costa Brazilįirst of all, can you tell us about your goals for 2022 when it comes to living a slower lifestyle?.REV On Air: Regenerative Farming & Social Justice with Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm.REV On Air: Building a Legacy Brand & Sustainable Fashion Today with Eileen Fisher.A Sustainable Life with Neada Deters of LESSE.Introducing BEAR: Why You Should Be Taking Daily Plant-based Vitamins. ![]()
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