Michael Schneider:

I assume that subscription and sharing businesses will expand in the furniture market; Pieces of furniture are rented for a certain period of time, go back to factories for refurbishment, and are sent out to other users. This cycle could go on and on until they eventually go out of fashion or break. Furniture will be made on the premise of continual refurbishment and changes in ownership. Accordingly, designers would have to focus more on efficiency, so that products can be packaged, delivered, and refurbished easily. Despite such a trend, some of the current mainstream furniture will remain, patronized by people who appreciate true authentic value. Take Karl Lagerfeld for example. He had added some actual pieces of traditional crafts in the Métiers d’Art collection of Chanel in order to leave them to posterity.

My wish as a product designer is to create products with true value that fascinate people, even those who have less materialistic desires to own things, while meeting the needs of the times mentioned above.