[charlieyu1]

Quality issues. Mass production haven’t wiped out hand made furniture.

[klodolph]

Mass production hasn’t wiped out hand-made furniture, but it’s damn fucking hard to get decent furniture these days on a reasonable budget. There used to be a kind of comfortable mid-range where you could spend extra money and get decent furniture, without going into luxury or bespoke furniture. Now, it seems like everything is either similar to Ikea in terms of build quality, or some kind of expensive / luxury good.

It’s basically bimodal now.

[tw04]

>Quality issues. Mass production haven’t wiped out hand made furniture.

No, but it has turned anything but the very highest end furniture into absolute garbage. It's nearly impossible to find furniture made of solid wood (whether a couch frame or a dresser drawer) unless you're spending darn near 5 figures on a set.

[victorstanciu]

Yes it has. Just because _some_ woodworkers still exist doesn't mean the profession as a whole hasn't massively declined with the advent of the likes of IKEA.

[hexage1814]

But most people are fine with a mass produced furniture rather than hand made one...

[b112]

Indeed. The same is true of clothes, which used to be all custom made, hand tailored.

There is still manual labour in some of that, but it's vastly reduced, and almost never bespoke.

The same is true of so many things. Only those with money to burn, can afford that ancestral experience.

[smt88]

This is a great example because handmade furniture used to be the only furniture, and now it's almost impossible to find.