Artisanal traditions, maker culture, and the handmade.
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When Bjarke Ingels' 8 House was completed in Orestad in 2010, its figure-eight form allowing residents to bicycle from ground level to the tenth-floor penthouse announced a new direction.
Oliver Ramsey · 2026-05-22
When you step inside Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, designed by Bernini and completed in 1670, the oval interior unfolds as continuous theatrical experience.
James Alderton · 2026-05-22
The Chrysler Building, completed in 1930, remains the most exuberant expression of Art Deco ambition.
James Alderton · 2026-05-22
From a narrow, windowless medina alley, a riad reveals nothing.
Daniel Hurst · 2026-05-22
Lisbon is the only European capital where azulejos, hand-painted ceramic tiles, cover entire building facades from pavement to roofline.
Sebastian Cole · 2026-05-22
Luis Barragan's Casa Estudio, completed in 1948 in Tacubaya, uses raw concrete, volcanic stone, and walls of saturated colour, including his signature hot pink, to create spaces of extraordinary spiritual calm.
Catherine Avery · 2026-05-22
At Bob Kramer's studio in Olympia, Washington, a billet of Damascus steel forged from over three hundred alternating layers of high-carbon and nickel steel glows orange at nine hundred degrees.
Catherine Avery · 2026-05-22
On Murano in the Venetian lagoon, furnaces at Seguso Vetri d'Arte burn at approximately eleven hundred degrees Celsius.
Oliver Ramsey · 2026-05-21
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A leather jacket from Schott NYC, the company that produced the original Perfecto in 1928, begins as full-grain horsehide or steerhide from American tanneries.
Oliver Ramsey · 2026-05-21
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.
Marcus Wei · 2026-05-21
A mechanical watch from Tudor or Omega contains between one hundred and three hundred components machined to micron tolerances.
James Alderton · 2026-05-21
A proper overcoat from Crombie or Private White V.
Catherine Avery · 2026-05-21
A briefcase from Swaine Adeney Brigg, established in 1750, is constructed from bridle leather tanned at J.
Thomas Nakamura · 2026-05-21
A Pelikan Souveran M800, manufactured in Hanover, uses a piston-filling mechanism machined from brass.
Marcus Wei · 2026-05-21
A dining table from Ercol, whose Windsor workshop has produced furniture from English elm and beech since 1920, is built from kiln-dried solid wood with mortise-and-tenon construction.
Catherine Avery · 2026-05-21
A writing desk from Pinch Design, crafted in their Somerset workshop from solid walnut or oak, is built for someone who will spend thousands of hours seated before it.
Catherine Avery · 2026-05-21
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A Muhle R89 safety razor consists of three pieces of chrome-plated zamak alloy machined to ensure consistent blade gap and exposure angle.
Daniel Hurst · 2026-05-21
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.
Thomas Nakamura · 2026-05-21
At Anderson and Sheppard on Savile Row, the cutting room occupies the first floor, where natural light falls across tables holding bolts of cloth from Huddersfield and the Scottish Borders.
William Ashford · 2026-05-20
At the Edward Green factory in Northampton, the clicking room smells of leather and decisions.
Thomas Nakamura · 2026-05-20