Spinning

We bought a hand painted table at a knock down price from a classy ceramics and furniture business that hit the buffers in Italy’s long and agonising slump.

I went round to arrange for delivery at another local ceramics factory. The guy dipping these machine made plates told me how hard business was these days. Rapid product development with high set-up and marketing costs, automation where possible for long product runs and hand- making for short ones. Picky, faddy consumers and cheap labour producers ready to copy new products in the bat of an eye.

The backbone of Italy’s economy has been its small and medium firms but it seems to get harder to survive with each passing year.

The table with the extending leaves in extras.