Fortified Wine & Working Landscapes
The fresher side of a steep landscape.
Banyuls Rimage is a useful surprise for anyone who equates fortified wine with long oxidative ageing. Chapoutier’s Bila-Haut account follows a different route.
A deeper
look at what
holds value.
Exceptional objects, remarkable places and enduring ideas.
What makes them matter. What makes them last.
TimeContextPeopleConsequenceWhat remains
Follow your curiosity.
All worldsNot sure where to begin?
Today’s perspective
A second life inside Breuer’s concrete.
A second life, not a second best.
Hotel Marcel asks what a building can do next. The conversion of a concrete office building makes that preservation question tangible through an overnight stay.
From the collection · Selected 27 October 202601 / 07 · Today’s perspective: A second life inside Breuer’s concrete.
New discoveries · 27 October 2026
Three reasons to look closer.
A starting point from our latest 28 discoveries. Different subjects, each with a reason to stay with you.
Korean Textile Art & Everyday Use
The pieces become the composition.
Jogakbo turns joined pieces of cloth into a deliberate arrangement of colour and seams. Kang Keum Seong’s documented work shows how that language can enter everyday objects.
Working Studios & Textile Art
The picture that takes a loom.
At Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios, a viewing balcony makes the labour behind contemporary tapestry visible. The experience is an encounter with translation, not merely a finished image.
Follow an idea
Let one discovery lead to another.
4 connected stories · About 8 min
Machines with another answer.
A synthesizer, a record player, a motorcycle and a watch. Design becomes more interesting when you ask what each machine makes possible.
Follow this idea4 connected stories · About 8 min
A second life you can visit.
A concrete hotel, a public factory, a power station and a boat lift. Four places to see what continued relevance requires.
Follow this idea
4 connected stories · About 8 min
Made to stay in use.
A lamp, a jacket, a camera and a boat. Four different ways to give something another working life.
Follow this ideaEdition 01
The shape of value.
Why some things matter and what that means for how we live, collect and choose.
Explore the edition
ON THE CALENDAR
A moment to look.
Selected sales and exhibitions, with a reason to look closer.
Scheduled window
to
London
What a bowl can hold.
More than 200 works bring Lucie Rie and Hans Coper back into the same rooms. A chance to learn how two quiet forms changed British ceramics.
Why it mattersThe WHV Letter
A slower perspective.
Discoveries, observations and what we’re learning. A closer look at the thinking behind WHV.
Read the opening letter