Declines at Milan's Furniture Fair Teaches Lessons About What's Needed in Design

In case you missed it, this weekend Alice Rawsthorn was at the top of her game, writing this piece for the NY Times, “Furniture Designers are Shifting Focus.” She chooses the famous and just-kicked off Salone Internazionale del Mobile furniture fair in Milan as her launch point, and the real meat and potatoes of the piece, chronicling the big decline in both visitors and exhibitors at the annual event, down from its peak during those high-flying glory days just two years ago (remember all those design-as-art