Purpose Collection

The collection draws inspiration from our Seventh Great Commitment and its focus on mindfulness and a concern for the welfare of others. Based on barns, silos and granaries, this eclectic and often eccentric vernacular architecture speaks to our agrarian roots and offers poetic rumination on decay and regrowth. Although the black or red barn presents a different aesthetic approach when newly constructed and painted, as time goes by the surfaces become weathered, kudzu may work its inevitable way around the siding, beautifully painted barn quilts may be installed.

So often these buildings are very quiet, and like people in the way their quietness can cause them to be forgotten. However, their deep connection to the practice of tilling the soil for food and economic viability is cause for remembrance and celebration.