Sunday, November 14, 2010

Predicting the Future of Natural Furnitures

Before we can get into our attempt to predict the future of furnitures, it will be important for us to be clear on what exactly we mean by natural furnitures. Some terms can mean different things to different people, in different contexts. When we talk of natural furnitures, we are not looking at them as being natural as against others that are 'unnatural.' Rather, we are looking at them being natural, as looked against others that are synthetic, or artificial, as it were. This is where it turns out that the natural furnitures are those that are made from naturally occurring materials (like wood), which are harvested from their natural existence and directly employed into the making of the said furniture pieces. We are looking at a situation where a tree will be cut, and be directly sawed into the wood that is employed in making various furniture pieces, with the only form of processing that is carried out being the modest treatment that the wood is subjected to, to make it less prone to pathogen attacks. In this context, natural furniture is quite distinct from synthetic furniture. The latter is usually made from non-naturally occurring materials, usually chemicals, which are formulated in various ways to make the material that is subsequently employed in making the furniture items.

So, ultimately, furnitures are those made from naturally occurring materials- like wood, rattan, bamboo and so on.

With that kind of background information, we can now proceed into the prediction of the natural furnitures' future. In doing this, we won't claim special clairvoyance powers. Rather, our prediction of the future will be dependant on our study of current trends in the furniture industry. The present, to those who pay keen attention to it, tends to be a fairly good predictor of the future.

So, how is the future of natural furnitures likely to be?

Well, for starters, natural furnitures are likely to continue being scarcer and scarcer as the years progress. Most of these furnitures are products of forests. But we know that human populations are increasingly decimating the forests. Indeed, in most parts of the world, the only forests that are in existence are those that are under state protection. Where a forest remains unprotected by state actors, we tend to see it having to be decimated, to make way for human 'developments.' The implication here is that a time is surely coming when a natural piece of furniture will be a very hard-to-find thing; the sort that people getting a hold of will feel more tempted to hoard as a keepsake, rather than putting it into practical use.

Natural furnitures are also likely to become expensive over the years. This will be coming as a result of the (previously alluded to) scarcity that we are likely to experience, of the materials used in making these furnitures. In keeping with basic laws of economics, when a product becomes scarce, without the demand for it falling, then its price has to spike. Natural furnitures are not likely to be the exception to this, and this in fact a trend we are already seeing in various parts of the world.

As the authentic materials for making natural furnitures continue to become scarce, we are likely to see the emergence of a trend where more and more daring attempts to 'fake' them will be made. We are already seeing this with regard to the likes of bamboo and rattan furnitures (where we see very real-looking plastic imitations). Don't be too surprised then, several years down the line, when you come across a fellow selling 'replica wooden furniture.'




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