The return of wired earphones

A lot of young people prefer wired earphones to AirPods today. 
Some don't use them, but admire the ones who do.

Everyone assumed AirPods would make wired earphones extinct. So why the reversal?

When someone picks a retro Smeg fridge over a sleek steel one, guests don't call it a practical choice. They pat them for having good taste.

The Smeg has a colour, a curve, a mood. You can make things as convenient as possible, but people will always drift back to the things that feel like they belong in a story. And stories are never just white, steel, and grey.

The most loved buildings are rarely the most minimalist ones. They have double height ceilings, rough stone walls, rooms that make you want to sit longer. Nobody accidentally builds something timeless.

That quality comes from knowing when to stop removing the imperfection.

As a young architect, the instinct is to build the fast, sleek, and impressive. But eventually you come back to the same realisation. A space that feels slow, homely and warm will always outlast the one that just looks like the future.

The wire is inconvenient, but it carries decades-worth of stories. That's exactly why it's back.