What The Judges Say - The Alan Peters Furniture Award 2022

Critical analysis is largely absent from furniture design today despite obsessive attention to detail over workmanship. Judgments that IKEA furniture is cheap when in fact the testing of their furniture is vastly more rigorous than the furniture of designer makers. However, that is not to say that some designer furniture designer makers do do not intend their furniture to last and be handed down. Jeremy Broun looks beyond the popular conception that design means only the way something looks and explains the criteria for judging this prestigious British award and shares the collective judgments of seasoned furniture designer Andrew Lawton and previous Alan Peters award winner Freya Whamond. Check ou the first video on the 2022 award ceremony and what the contestants had to say: • The Alan Peters Furnit...