Is it true that they don't make furniture like
they used to or is it a common myth held by every generation?
Frankly, at other times it might have been true, but it
most definitely is not true now. Even today's modest furniture
is far better than yesterday's routine- furniture. Decent
furniture, nicely style, is currently available at very
modest prices, and the best of present-day furniture is
technically as good as any furniture ever produced. any
furniture ever produced. Now the key word is “technically”.
It goes without saying-even I’ll say it-that the craftsmen
of old, personally selecting the woods, preparing the glues,
cutting each piece of wood to exacting proportions, working
with hand tools and spending hundreds of hours on an item,
often created true works of art. But the fact remains that
carpentry, joinery, and cabinetmaking were backbreaking
slow work two hundred years ago
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