Design Secrets: Furniture

Design Secrets : Furniture

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and local labor, but on the contrary, for their enriching and inspir-

ing traditional know how, that might be disappearing otherwise.”

So, began a great adventure for Adrien Gardère that spanned sev-

eral years and many trips from France to various parts of Asia.

“The idea was to try and understand the phenomenon where the

process of production is responding to a lot of demands from the

occidental world that conform to our stereotypes as to what is

local or Asian or Indian, rather than a truthful and genuine real-

ity,” he says. “It is looking for the convergence ...