Storage is the conversation we have least, and probably should have first. Where the piece lives the rest of the time is at least as important as where it lives in use.
Plastic. Anywhere. It off-gasses, it scratches, and after a year it always smells like itself.
One last note: hiding everything is its own kind of statement. Some pieces are designed to be kept out, deliberately. If you can leave one on a shelf and stop thinking about it, that’s the test passed.
The category teaches you to ask the wrong questions first. What does it do, what does it have, how many of which thing. Useful — eventually. But not where to start.
If the answer is a drawer, out of sight, that’s fine — but choose accordingly. If the answer is somewhere I’d actually keep it out, the field narrows immediately. Most of the category fails this test on aesthetics alone.
Some pieces are designed to move quickly. Others are designed to slow down. They are different objects with different purposes; one isn’t better, but they aren’t interchangeable.
Usually: buying something loud. Rarely: buying something quiet that didn’t try too hard.
That’s most of the framework. The catalog comes second.
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