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When the Hotel and Gasthof zur Goldenen Sonne in Landshut, Bavaria, needed replacement hinges for doors that had swung since 1490, they turned to a blacksmith whose forge sits barely twenty kilometres away.
2024-12-25
PP Mobler in Alleroed, Denmark, has produced Hans Wegner's furniture designs since 1953, and the workshop guarantees that a chair made today will remain structurally sound for two hundred years.
2024-12-24
In 1785, Edmund Cartwright patented the power loom, an invention that would increase weaving speed by a factor of forty within a century.
2024-12-23
At the Moser glassworks in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, a master glassblower begins his shift at five in the morning when the furnace has reached twelve hundred degrees Celsius.
2024-12-22
Walk into any Georgian townhouse and you will find brass door furniture that has spent two centuries developing a patina no chemical treatment can replicate.
2024-12-21
Since 1843, the Rattee family and their successors at Rattee and Kett have maintained the stonework of England's great ecclesiastical buildings, with particular devotion to the colleges and chapels of Cambridge.
2024-12-20
In 1936, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a modest house for Herbert Jacobs in Madison, Wisconsin, costing five thousand five hundred dollars.
2024-12-16
At a London studio, a gather of molten glass at eleven hundred degrees glows orange-white on a blowpipe.
2024-12-11
The perfume organ at Givaudan's training school in Grasse holds approximately six hundred bottles arranged by olfactory family.
2024-12-11
At Anita Porchet's atelier in Lausanne, the world's most celebrated enamel painter applies mineral pigments to a coin-sized watch dial under a microscope.
2024-12-09
A new pair of raw selvedge denim is stiff, dark, and unforgiving.
2024-12-08
At Shepherds Bookbinders in London, a craftsman applies gold leaf to a leather spine using heated brass tools.
2024-12-03
At the Raku family workshop in Kyoto, where the fifteenth generation continues a tradition from the sixteenth century, tea bowls are shaped without a wheel.
2024-12-02
A Misono UX10 gyuto, forged in Seki City from Swedish stainless steel hardened to Rockwell 59-60, arrives with an edge ground to fifteen degrees per side.
2024-11-24
A briefcase from Swaine Adeney Brigg, established in 1750, is constructed from bridle leather tanned at J.
2024-11-22
In the Vallee de Joux, Philippe Dufour works alone at a bench overlooking snow-covered fields.
2024-11-17
At the Edward Green factory in Northampton, the clicking room smells of leather and decisions.
2024-11-15
At twenty-five, I considered opera an extravagant exercise in melodrama.
2024-11-07
In 1962, a young Mick Jagger clutched a collection of Chess Records imports on a train platform in Dartford, England, and struck up a conversation with Keith Richards about Muddy Waters.
2024-10-29
When Jackson Pollock's drip paintings first appeared at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in 1948, the critical establishment split between those who saw revolutionary art and those who saw an elaborate hoax.
2024-10-20