Known Facts About Production Furnishings

Why Production Furnishings Will Never Be Investment Quality

With the introduction of mass production in the early 20th century (and up to the present day) the new found speed and ease of furniture building has drastically cut production costs. This is a manufacturing concept truly unique to any other time in recorded history. While this has been a grand idea for production in certain key industries, it has become the best thing of all for furniture industry profits because it drives down labor costs. However, with human nature being what it is, it also became the accepted trend to reduce material quality in an attempt to even further reduce cost. Reducing the material quality and embracing automation has been the unfortunate and prevalent trend found in modern furniture manufacturing and as if this was not already fleecing the American public, now we move and destroy further American jobs in the name of human greed. For example: China where a labor force that is paid in cents per-day is coupled with modern technology to further build even poorer quality furnishing under old brand names that used to stand for quality and the pride of American Master Craftsman.

The Five Basics Of Purchasing Furnishings.

• Quality furniture never comes in a box. Requiring assembly by anyone.
• Quality furniture is fully finished. Even crude or rustic furniture should be properly finished, inside and out.
• Quality furniture is handmade from the best natural materials and should be heirloom quality standards. Paste board, compositions, uncured woods, and veneers are not quality materials
• Quality furniture cannot be mass produced.
• Quality furniture comes with an unconditional warranty. As you know, Grandma and Grandpa's heirloom furniture didn't need warranties, they simply stood the test of time.

Scottsdale Art Factory Proudly Follows These Basics.

Scottsdale Art Factory Will Never Sell The Pride Of The American Master Craftsman To Foreign Soil For Greed: The creation of production furniture has become business as usual. Mass producers and national brand names copy the world's greatest treasures, art and furniture designs. The old, national manufacturing names we all grew up with - names that we used to identify with quality furniture builders - have long since sold out to this mass production concept. Almost every retail and discount production store in America has succumbed to the practice of offering furnishings that will never be true investments. They are made to be disposable, and are machine made replicas built from fake, man-made materials such as pasteboard, wood and stone veneers, or casted copies of the original works. These manufacturers have become master magicians at the art of slight of hand, faux and facade. In addition to these assembly-line techniques, this mindless automation and the trend to foreign-build with little concern for quality has caused the loss of thousands of American jobs and the opportunity for the next generation of American worker to become a master craftsman. The result is that no one person is trained or able to build an entire product because we have chosen to live in a got to have it today, then throw it away world. This has become an accepted way of doing business.

Americans Sell Their Family Heritage To Foreign Soil:

These accepted practices have cost you - the consumer - a very high price in many ways. This price has not only been in the loss of financial investment, but is in the even greater loss of irreplaceable family history such as the passing on of cherished family heirlooms. In other words, most furniture offered today is built to pass itself off as "The Real McCoy" and at usually no small price and at little true value. These furnishings, as you probably well know, do not become antiquities, good investments, or improve with time. From their very conception, they are built with planned obsolescence and big profits in mind, and are heading for the yard sale or dumpster in a very short time.

This Is Not Sour Grapes:

This is not sour grapes toward the industry; this is just observation taken from the hard facts experienced over our nine decades of creating fine, handcrafted furniture. Scottsdale Art Factory has never given in to this money making, slight of hand method of operating.

We Feel We Must Educate

Ever wonder why? Studies show it has very little to do with how much money a family earns. It has more to do with having an investment state of mind. The ability to decern the difference between an expense and a long term investment. Most Americans are focused on how cheap each item can be purchased on sale prices with little attention given to true value. While this works well for expense purchases on commodities such as food, clothing, cars, computers etc. this never works well on long term big ticket purchases such as your home, building products or home furnishings etc. The reason is, your home should be an investment and as it gets older it appreciates in value with the exception of things that have to be replaced because they are worn out or become out of date.