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In Italy, dinner does not end with dessert — it ends with amaro, a glass of bitter herbal liqueur that has been settling stomachs and closing meals since medieval monks first steeped mountain herbs in grain alcohol.
2025-02-27
The home bar is not a liquor store in miniature.
2025-02-20
Cartagena de Indias sits on Colombia's Caribbean coast like a fever dream in coral stone.
2025-02-18
Vienna was the capital of an empire that no longer exists, and this fact permeates everything — the scale of the Ringstrasse, the formality of the coffeehouses, the reverence for classical music that treats Beethoven and Schubert as living presences rather than historical figures.
2025-02-16
Porto is Lisbon's grittier, more soulful sibling — a granite city tumbling down the Douro River gorge with a defiant beauty that owes nothing to polish.
2025-02-15
In 2024, a single AI image generator can produce ten thousand variations of a chair in under a minute.
2025-02-06
In the workshops of Hermes on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, an artisan spends twenty minutes finishing a single edge of leather.
2025-02-05
Gold paint, the aerosol-sprayed substitute adorning picture frames in every homeware shop, is not gold.
2025-01-31
At John Lobb's workshop on St James's Street in London, a lastmaker carves a block of beech or hornbeam into a three-dimensional model of a client's foot that will serve as the foundation for every pair of bespoke shoes that client orders for life.
2025-01-26
Mark Harrell, a retired aerospace engineer from Phoenix, Arizona, founded Bad Axe Tool Works in 2008 with the ambition of building the finest handsaws available.
2025-01-25
A pair of Church's Grafton brogues, first purchased in 1978, has been resoled eleven times by the same cobbler, James Miller of Edinburgh.
2025-01-21
The sound of a heavy oak door closing on hand-forged iron hinges is distinctly different from the same door hung on cast or stamped alternatives.
2025-01-16
The mortise-and-tenon joint, in which a projecting tongue of wood fits into a corresponding rectangular hole, has been in continuous use for at least seven thousand years.
2025-01-12
Michel Garcia, a French botanist and master dyer based in Lauris, Provence, has spent four decades extracting colour from plants, insects, and minerals to dye textiles without a single synthetic molecule.
2025-01-09
Amalfi paper, made by hand in the coastal town of Amalfi since the twelfth century, is the material of choice for menu printing at restaurants including Noma in Copenhagen and The Fat Duck in Bray.
2025-01-06
Fragments of woven baskets dating to approximately ten thousand BCE have been found in Guitarrero Cave in Peru, making basketry one of humanity's oldest technologies, predating both pottery and metallurgy.
2025-01-02
Conceria Walpier, located in the Santa Croce sull'Arno district of Tuscany, supplies vegetable-tanned leather to over three hundred fashion houses and bespoke workshops worldwide.
2025-01-01
In the village of Broseley, Shropshire, the last traditional nail maker in England works at a forge producing hand-wrought nails since the eighteenth century.
2024-12-29
Walk into a vegetable tannery and the first thing that strikes you is the smell: rich, earthy, faintly sweet, and utterly unlike the chemical sharpness of a chrome-tanning facility.
2024-12-24
Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie, Scotland, repairs and assembles roughly one hundred and fifty thousand casks every year, making it the largest working cooperage in the world.
2024-12-18