Furniture for no one

Making outside of societal context, making furniture just to ones own whim, speculative furniture it is often called, lacks morality. In essence it can be as non sensical as having sex on your own, having a conversation on your own, playing chess against yourself. Okay as practice yet if exhibited with a view to impose ones own sense of order on others, it is dictatorial. Like lecturing, not conversing. The societal relationship of client, customer to maker provides context. Provides a moral imperative. Provides the maker with purpose and a purpose is what gives life meaning. Shouting ones aesthetic preference through exhibiting ones wears can be noisy navel gazing in a cul de sac. Making prototypes for production, however, is a separate practice. Speculating, three d sketching out proposals for production is a necessary step in the development of our material culture. The tailored suit, the bespoke, the custom built requires client or model to fit to. Here are the twin pillars of furniture. The production piece, developed over time through an evolutionary process, culminating in the finely honed common ground tools for living. And the custom built one off. It is the third category that lacks purpose. I know, I have made a few. Digressions off in to obstacles. Objects that actively hindered living.