Best known for reimagining vintage Airstreams and producing site-specific interiors and objects, Perpetually Devastated treats time, wear, and constraint as essential materials. Each project unfolds slowly, privileging repair over replacement and authorship over mass appeal. Rooted in land stewardship and manual labor, the studio positions design as a counterpractice—one that values permanence, care, and refusal in an era defined by acceleration.
Established in 2015 and located on a small farm in rural Coquille, Oregon, Perpetually Devastated creates in deliberate opposition to the speed, excess, and disposability of the modern design economy. Rejecting fast fashion and trend-driven production, the studio focuses on restoration, reuse, and long-form making as acts of quiet resistance.
Art in the Aftermath.
“We’re called Perpetually Devastated because devastation is not an anomaly within modern capitalism — it is a recurring outcome of its cycles of extraction and obsolescence.
The land that we farm and build on was a clear-cut wasteland when we purchased it. The Airstreams we restore were engineered for durability, yet discarded when they no longer aligned with the pace or trends of the market. In both instances, value was conditional. Once attention shifted, objects and landscapes alike were treated as expendable — not because they lacked integrity, but because they no longer fit the cycle.
Throughout history, restoration has often emerged in response to periods of accelerated expansion — industrialization, modernization, redevelopment — when societies confront what progress has erased.
Restoration, at its most rigorous, does not invent value. It reclaims it. It recognizes that what was discarded may still hold full integrity if approached deliberately.
Founder Parker Bolden in Wallpaper*