Making to Last Locally

New Zealand-based furniture designer David Trubridge is profiled in Australian art and design magazine Dumbo Feather, pass it on sharing “his story and ground-breaking ideas that could revolutionise the way we buy and consume design, and in turn significantly lighten the load on our environment.” “One of the things I’ve talked about with a few people in different parts of the world is building a network of manufacturers so that, rather than shipping stuff to Italy and Italians shipping stuff to New Zealand, we make each locally,” Trubridge says. “I’d send files to them and they make my stuff there, and vice versa, so that all the materials and energy is as localized as possible.” Trubridge and his wife Linda sailed to New Zealand via the Caribbean and the Pacific on a yacht called Hornpipe in the mid-eighties.