Times interior specialist Lucia van der Post has claimed that a new interior trend called Slow Design is moving kitchens, lounges and bedrooms away from the cold feel of mass-produced items and bringing the home back to basics.She wrote It is to the home what the Slow Food movement is to the kitchen which is to say a return to older values, to times when instant gratification was a phrase we hadnt yet heard of.Its a reaction to the might of the mass-produced and expresses a longing for more culturally authentic and ethically made artefacts.Examples of Slow Design given were a Piet Hein Eek table constructed from discarded wood pieces and a Katrin Svana Eythorsdottirs chandelier, made from nylon twine dipped in thick glucose sugar.The trend was being taken further by certain designers, it was claimed, who were embracing the cult of the imperfect and experimenting with the attraction of natural materials and their imperfect non-symmetrical lines.Writing on the Culturekiosque website, design expert C Davis Remignanti recently claimed that the 21st century had given birth to a new obsession with the imperfect especially in the kitchen. Materials such as bamboo were said to be of particular interest for kitchen designers as they brought their design schemes back to nature.