{"id":7011,"date":"2017-05-15T22:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designbuybuild.co.uk\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2017-05-15T22:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:16:04","slug":"high-end-modern-furniture-new-century-design-art-brought-life-artisan-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designbuybuild.co.uk\/high-end-modern-furniture-new-century-design-art-brought-life-artisan-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"High-End Modern Furniture, New-Century Design: Is it Art When Brought to Life by Artisan Hands?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Surely, most of us have been engaged in the amorphous \u201cwhat is art?\u201d conversation. In the course of gathering thoughts for this article, I discovered there\u2019s also an ancillary conversation out there about the definition of an artisan versus a craftsman<\/a>. There\u2019s definite consensus that an artisan is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand. Yet, only some profess that through practice, experience and aptitude, the artisan can excel to the expressive levels of an artist. Which brings us right back to that mind-tickling question about the definition of art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well\u2026I\u2019m not sure exactly how to define the artisan craftsman. But I know them. I work with them. There\u2019s no question in my mind that what they do is art. They are called upon to bring design and vision to life every day. Beyond the designer, as Jeff Vioski<\/a>, founder and designer of VIOSKI<\/a> furniture put it, \u201cthey have both the eye and the quality of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n