Craft and Design

Modern craftsmanship is most commonly recognizes through out the world today, as the skill of an individual or a group designed and making as artistic object; without it being mass produced and / or created by machines or in a production line. The object should have a meaning and a reason for being made other that just for money and profit.

An example of 'craft' today that i found is the Broken Bench Chairs, the Unique furniture of clever art, by Fracture Furniture's. these chairs have been designed as benches and then broken apart into groups of two or more. The benches are very simply made, with many different materials. This furniture is made to bring back the sense of tactfulness and the real feeling behind an object. We are used to seeing things smoothed or flattened down and made to a point of near perfection.

In these chairs and benches the properties of each material has been tested and experimented with, these are shown in the final product, like plastic deforms, wood breaks of splinters and concrete and plasters shatter of crack. The designers and craftsman experiment and show the real qualities of the material like the people in our past and history used to.

reference to site

http://dornob.com/broken-benches-chairs-unique-furniture-or-clever-art/