Cameras & Optical Instruments
A crystal between you and the stars.
The Takahashi FC-100DZ makes an unusual material useful in a very ordinary ambition: seeing more.
LATEST / IN VIEW
The latest from WHV.
New discoveries, considered objects and developments worth following.
A different way into the archive.
62 stories · Page 5 of 6
Automata & Mechanical Music
A small field that moves to music.
Real wheat, gold leaf and a mechanical musical movement make an unexpected contemporary automaton.
Musical Instruments & Acoustic Sculpture
A sculpture you play with wet fingers.
The Cristal Baschet makes the boundary between musical instrument and sculpture feel surprisingly unnecessary.
Cartography & Globes
Turn the world the other way up.
A handmade globe makes the familiar map strange again, without changing the planet.
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.
Authored Furniture
The chair with an order card.
A Nakashima chair invites two kinds of looking: at the wood itself, and at the record of its making.
Musical Instruments
The Stradivari valued for what survives.
The Messiah’s extraordinary condition makes it a witness to its maker, without settling which violin sounds best.
Sound & Components
A small glass tube with a long afterlife.
Western Electric still makes the 300B electron tube. A component from 1938 asks what real continuity in audio manufacturing looks like.
Cameras and Image Making
The camera built around a mount.
The Leica M3 arrived in 1954 with a new bayonet mount and rangefinder system. Its lasting importance lives in a working ecosystem, not a shelf.
Art & Design
The stool built from one bend.
Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 has stayed in production since 1933 with three legs, a round seat and one structural idea worth repeating.
Musical Instruments
The piano that is not furniture.
A Steinway Model D may dominate a room, but its value is decided at the keyboard, inside the action and through the care that keeps it responsive.
Sound & Listening
A record player with a next chapter.
The Linn Sondek LP12 asks a better question than what comes next: how much of what you already own can come with you?