SELECTION / Objects
A chair with a way back.
A familiar café chair makes a larger point: lasting value needs a practical route back into use.
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Worth a closer reading.
Longer explorations of particular objects, places and ideas. What makes them matter, what keeps them useful and what the evidence can tell us.
CONTINUE LOOKING
Three different ways value continues.
Cameras and Image Making
The back that kept the camera useful.
Hasselblad’s CFV 100C gives a classic V System camera a serious digital future without erasing what made it distinct.
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Wine and Cellar Stewardship
What an old bottle needs.
Penfolds’ recorking clinics turn an ageing bottle into a question of condition, custody and informed intervention.
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Architecture and Stays
A ruin made room for living.
Astley Castle lets people inhabit a protected ruin because the new architecture makes its losses visible rather than pretending them away.
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