Seattle-born David Alhadeff didn't start The Future Perfect in the hope of becoming the next pioneer of American design, but on a whim to "work with something tangible".
From a bittersweet start in the only-just-surfacing tech industry of the 1990s, where he had founded a moderately successful teen apparel e-commerce platform he "was fortunate enough" to sell to a company that later went bankrupt, the gallerist owner turned to his long-time love of design knowing "that was the space I wanted to be in," he tells me in conversation over Zoom. Alhadeff was aware of the Eurocentric essence of the interior scene, and wanted to change that. Looking beyond the ever-spread appreciation of US mid-century modern furniture classics, he recognized an opportunity in "the local community of makers and artists who weren't being given representation".
