Sound & Listening
A sculpture that plays.
Avantgarde Acoustic’s TRIO G3 makes the loudspeaker impossible to ignore. The quieter question is what can be renewed inside it.
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A continuing attention.
What is changing now — and what it asks us to reconsider. Short, dated readings connected to the longer view.
Fragrance
A perfume remembered by nose.
L’Iris de Fath revisits a vanished composition through smelling and interpretation — not access to a secret original formula.
Read the noteRare Objects
A window into an asteroid.
Olivine crystals suspended in metal: the Imilac meteorite makes deep time visible at the scale of an object.
Read the noteWine & Spirits
A bottle shaped by patience.
Château-Chalon’s 62-centilitre clavelin is a small invitation to question what makes a wine worth keeping — or opening.
Read the noteBags & Style
A bag with a history.
From a Kelly Pochette to monogrammed travel trunks: a September sale invites a closer reading of the individual piece.
Read the noteWatches
A season for looking closer.
Paris brings vintage and contemporary watchmaking into the same conversation. The interest is in the details.
Read the noteAlternative Assets
Beyond the record price.
A quieter market can reward a more exacting eye. What a broad collectibles index does — and does not — tell us.
Read the noteJewellery
The particular blue.
Two blue diamonds at a June sale show why size alone is an incomplete way to read a jewel.
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