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At the Ludlow Bookbinders workshop in Shropshire, master binder Kate Holland produces saddle-stitched pamphlets and limited-edition publications for clients including the Bodleian Library, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the National Trust.
2025-01-10
John Dilworth, one of London's most respected violin restorers, often works with his eyes half-closed.
2024-12-25
In 2017, Graf von Faber-Castell introduced a carbon fibre barrel pen that weighed just nineteen grams yet possessed the structural rigidity of aerospace-grade aluminium.
2024-12-18
The Nantucket lightship basket, woven on a wooden mould from rattan, has been produced since the 1850s when lightship crews passed long watches by weaving.
2024-12-14
A handmade ceramic bowl by a skilled potter costs perhaps forty pounds.
2024-12-12
At the Steinway factory in Astoria, Queens, a piano rim is bent from eighteen layers of maple by six workers in twenty minutes before the adhesive sets.
2024-12-08
The Toyoda GL-3 shuttle loom from the 1950s weaves denim at approximately seventy-five centimetres wide.
2024-12-06
At the Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie, Scotland, master coopers repair approximately a hundred thousand casks per year.
2024-12-02
Between 1853 and 1870, Baron Haussmann demolished roughly twenty thousand medieval buildings in Paris and replaced them with grand boulevards and uniform apartment blocks.
2024-11-25
A Pelikan Souveran M800, manufactured in Hanover, uses a piston-filling mechanism machined from brass.
2024-11-22
A pair of Goodyear welted shoes from Crockett and Jones begins with a leather upper lasted over a wooden form, a welt stitched through the insole and upper, and an oak-bark tanned sole attached with separate stitching.
2024-11-20
I walked into the Frick Collection on a Tuesday afternoon with an hour to spare.
2024-11-11
James Joyce reportedly spent an entire day working on two sentences of Ulysses.
2024-11-04
The I-V-vi-IV chord progression — in the key of C, that is C major, G major, A minor, F major — underlies an estimated one-quarter of all pop songs released since 1970.
2024-10-26
Dieter Rams's ten principles of good design, formulated during his tenure at Braun from 1961 to 1995, culminate in the tenth: 'Good design is as little design as possible.
2024-10-16
Between 1970 and 1987, Andy Warhol shot approximately twenty thousand Polaroid portraits using a Big Shot camera — a fixed-focus, close-range camera designed for passport photos and discontinued shortly after its 1971 release.
2024-10-08
Vinyl sales peaked commercially in 2023, with revenue exceeding the one-billion-dollar mark in the United States for the third consecutive year.
2024-10-03
Drama is the most efficient literary form.
2024-10-02
Cormac McCarthy's male characters communicate through action, landscape, and violence rather than articulation.
2024-09-24
Philosophy has an accessibility problem that is almost entirely self-inflicted.
2024-09-22