How to embrace Slow Design: Sustainable furniture to add serious style to your home

When buying furniture, we often follow trends, but instead let’s consider investing in quality pieces and smart choices.

You may have heard of the term “slow design”, which pays homage to craftsmanship where buildings and furniture were created by hand, often very labour intensive but with great skill. This skill has not only been threatened but replaced over time by the flat-pack revolution where products are sometimes discarded over a short period.

Let’s consider another way to create a more personal and sustainable touch within design. Slow designed furniture is built to last decades if not centuries, thus causing less harm to the environment.

One such example of slow design has been called “the brown furniture movement”. This has seen a revival of wooden furniture that was once on-trend in our grandparents’ times. This fell out of fashion during the turn of the century, but is now finding its way back into many homes and being repurposed.

By Sarah Louise Dunne, interior designer and creative director at Sarah Louise Interiors. www.slouiseinteriors.com.

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