Investing in high-quality, durable furniture that stands the test of time can feel at once aspirational and daunting, especially if you're worried about coming to regret your choices in the long run. And that's understandable: no one wants to spend however many thousands of dollars on a kitchen cabinet they will grow out of love with within a matter of years — not to mention the negative impact of discarding perfectly functioning, mint condition homeware purely because our personal taste has changed.
Across the United Kingdom alone, "nearly 22 million small items of furniture are thrown away each year," the majority of which goes straight to landfills, recent research by the North London Waste Authority found. So, how can we solve this problem and invest in timeless furniture instead? British designer William Floyd Maclean might have just come up with the answers we have long been waiting for.
