#people genuinely don't give enough credit to furniture and its rich history

[hi-im-secretly-satan]

Hey just so you know, a lot of the 'furniture' design you've been reblogging is AI generated. They're not real woodwork, pay close attention to the absolute lack of true symmetry and it becomes easy to spot.

Heya anon,

Thanks for looking out for AI generated art. However, in this case it's completely unwarrented. I scrolled back to see which posts you were probably referring to, and I found them all to be legitimate. The antlers furniture had a source (can be found on mobile, couldn't find it on desktop), which lead to an archive. The chair, at the very least, is in the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.

The second post with the white curled furniture had its caption removed, but it was originally posted in 2014. The pieces are designed by Lila Jang.

The third post (almost a month ago!!) with the nouveau art bed and various other furniture also had the caption removed, but is a collection of furniture currently in the Musee D'Orsay in Paris. When you look at the furniture, you can see shadows from multiple light sources. They all check out. If you look even closer (might be harder to spot if you don't know furniture construction) you can spot joints and different colourations of different wood parts, but the carvings are all smooth.

I studied furniture making & conservation. Furniture has always been funky and wonky. Do you have any idea how hard it is to make furniture truly symmetric, especially before we had industrial machines? Hell, most of the time people didn't even want their furniture perfectly symmetric! It was most definitely the norm, but when Baroque and Rococo rolled around, they threw all that shit out of the window and made everying asymmetrical on purpose. The shapes and bodies were mostly still symmetrical, but the carvings and other decorations like marquetry or gildings were not. Especially Art Nouveau loved fucking around with shapes (check out Gaudi's work if you want to take a look at "AI" furniture from the 19th century) It only came back during the Empire, and in modern furniture. And even then, artists have always loved fucking around with shapes! When I started furniture making, everyone was talking about this CNC created Glitch Wardrobe by Ferruccio Laviani, created in 2013!

I might have missed (some of) the post(s) you were referring to, but from what I could find, everything was legit. Whenever I encounter furniture posts, I zoom in and look at the construction. Not because I'm paranoid for AI, but because I enjoy figuring out how it was made. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, furniture is not all squares and rectangles. Hell, most of furniture history has been anything but. It's not as straightforward as you might think. Give furniture some credit. It's got a wild and expansive imagination and history, and it's very underappreciated.