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Sustainability and Rustic Work Tools

Lasting tangible evidence from work-manly style

Case Study

Things from past and in unrestored, ‘original’ condition, which also preserve their history of use, have long been in demand as collector’s items and have become exemplary for ‘authentic’ or ‘industrial’ interior design styles – both private and commercial.

They unwind history by making it sensually presst – almost tangible plus often still pesend everywhere and in use. –  as interior pieces mostly in an aesthetic function.

Über sie spult sich Geschichte sinnlich greifbar zurück – noch in greifbarer Nähe und auch heute noch in Betrieb, als Einrichtungsstücke dekontextualisiert auch ästhetisch ‘wertvoll’.

Mostly manual labor objects such as old tools, ladders, etc. with their age and wear, damage and worn down material traces preserve them as a kind of a tangible street cred icon to prior times of physical labor and living closer to the earth.

Freedom from and return of fear of existence

These objects come from a different world of existence as their collectors.

In a homogenized and digital world, they transport an ambience and a spirit of ‘back to the basics’, do-it-yourself, urban gardening, handmade, small editions, start-up mentality, etc.

At the same time, they are traces of hard physical labor linked to (images of) the hardships and toils of existence, poverty and the struggle for survival.

People feel sufficiently safe from cultural technical shielding to adopt this as a style around them. A style that both ”grounds” and materializes a mood of the times in which the distress of life as a distress of nature and, subliminally, as a concern for one’s own progress, takes up more and more space in experience and behavior.

Perspectives

Material symbolics of rustic work tools

Old work objects with their traces of use ground life in an increasing digital ‘virtuality’. They are a stylistic device – today also industrially reproduced – to give tangible space to a more direct, ‘rougher’ way of existence, they bear witness to the hardships of earlier forms of life that have been overcome and at the same time to today’s struggle for survival of nature and environment.