RAE RAE HOUSE BY AUSTIN MAYNARD ARCHITECTS

For most of my adult life I’ve avoided accruing things. Over the years, I’ve stifled the urge to collect books, furniture, clothing and cutlery, positing that there is a finite number of things that a person “needs.” There’s a certain piousness to this pursuit of nothingness, spurred on by the ethical dilemmas surrounding how things are made. The thing about things, though, is that regardless of how consciously you try