Alice Rawshtorn on what's wrong with American furniture design
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/16/style/t/index.html
“One problem is the fragmented nature of design education in America. Furniture design tends to be taught in art schools here rather than with other design disciplines, as it is in top European schools like Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Britain’s Royal College of Art. [Paola] Antonelli, for one, believes that American design students would benefit from more exposure to other disciplines such as engineering.” [Alice Rawsthorn | Dearth of a Nation, NYT]