A lesson from lockdown: it's time to cut the consumerist clutter
Feeling cooped up with all that time at home? It's not more space you need, it's less stuff, writes Leana Schoeman
23 August 2020 - 00:00
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," said the wise designer William Morris way back in the 1880s - a statement which seems to be highly relevant to our current state of affairs. Little did Morris know what the world was in for with the consumerism, hoarding and stockpiling that was to come...
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