I'll second that on the furniture at least. There is a boutique furniture store a few blocks from here that I go into maybe once a year, just to drool, that specializes in Amish-produced goods. Absurdly expensive, but most of it would easily last a century or more, with reasonable care. I have maybe 30 years left at best, and no heirs, so not much point in my paying the super-high prices. But if I was to hit the lotto or something, and build my dream house, that is definitely where I would go to furnish the place.
You can like a poem or a song, without liking the person that wrote it. I agree that the convoluted strictures the Amish follow are silly, but they sure know how to put pieces of wood together, and I do respect that.
-- aem sends...