{"id":5966,"date":"2021-06-25T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"good-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5966","title":{"rendered":"GOOD DESIGN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something about innovative design that just gives me a buzz and garners my admiration. Especially if it involves finding a new and better way of doing something that had not even been questioned before.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take lamp shades. Beautiful once in place, but rigid, fragile, and bulky for shipping, storing or moving.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a day when everything needs to be compactly shippable from door to door, how do you handle lamp shades?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I put together three lamps &#8211; two table tops and a matching floor lamp &#8211; in Melissa&#8217;s remodeled office. Unassembled, all three lamps and their shades were encased in Styrofoam\u00a0and shipped in a box that was maybe a foot and a half square and a foot deep.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210624_123729-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1438\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210624_123833-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1438\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210624_123710_HDR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1351\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210624_124810_HDR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about innovative design that just gives me a buzz and garners my admiration. Especially if it involves finding a new and better way of doing something that had not even been questioned before. Take lamp shades. Beautiful once in place, but rigid, fragile, and bulky for shipping, storing or moving.\u00a0 In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}