THE REVISIONIST
Just as there is fast fashion, there is fast furniture: sleekly designed dressers, bookcases, and tables that clock a year or less before the knobs fall off, the veneer peels, and the drawer tracks go askew. That 21st-century combo of nifty but cheap tricks us into thinking that the only destination for worn-out furniture is the bulk trash pickup.
That mindset scores Hannah Headrick all kinds of brilliant finds—including a pair of Maya Lin-designed Knoll concrete stools spotted on the side of the road. “They were chipped, but I was able to clean them and fill in the chips,” she recalls. “Then I painted them, because they were so rough.” Now they’re on her backyard deck, along with a terra cotta-colored Maya Lin indoor/outdoor table for Knoll (found on Facebook Marketplace), a pair
