>>5748507Pottery, sculpting, and blacksmithing, and other traditional crafts were not useful at the time after production has become more mechanized or other more efficient methods were discovered. It was more a reaction against indistrialization that lead people to take up crafts, against modernization, sometimes for aesthetic reasons, as the market value of a lot of these crafts depended on being decoative. especially sculpture. Modernism introduced products that were produced by the mass, often with modernist designs, replacing not only traditional procedures but also design. The consumers had a reaction against that.
Plumbing and HVAC are instead supplying the demands of the modern standards of convenience and comfort, following industry standards that are continually updated.
