What Happens If The Remote Work Revolution And The Historical Arts and Crafts Movement Meet On Common Ground?

A paradigm alternative to central management orthodoxy for the development of a rural Maine peninsula.

Original Prototype design of a Wine Decanter by Weston Neil Andersen in glaze designed by Weston in the late 1940s

In Boothbay, Maine, the consortium of interests which I have nicknamed the JECD Party likes to use the word “history” as a talking point, but in the way that they use it, it is devoid of content. What have our political leaders and organizations ever had to say about history, other than to call ordinances protecting the working waterfront “archaic”?

Andersen Design is part of the history of the Peninsula as well as of a worldwide historical movement and philosophy of economic and community development. Founded on Southport Island, Maine in 1952, and moving to East Boothbay in 1958. Andersen Design is one of the first industrial design companies to use production as an art form. I say “one of” because I am assuming others exist in unwritten history. The history of alternative movements is often buried, in our case literally since both of our former locations were bulldozed o…