Architecture & Cultural Stewardship
The work behind keeping art.
Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen turns art storage into a public encounter. The most important exhibit may be the work that keeps a collection alive.
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Sports Cars & Chassis Design
The change beneath the silhouette.
The Caterham CSR looks familiar. Its suspension shows why the outline of a long-lived car does not tell you everything about its engineering.
Jewellery & Design Authorship
An ordinary shape, reconsidered.
Cartier’s Juste un Clou turns a nail into jewellery. Its enduring idea is not that gold makes anything valuable, but that proportion can change how we see a familiar object.
Cognac & Intergenerational Craft
The cask made for a successor.
Behind the conspicuous Louis XIII decanter is a quieter story about coopers, old oak vessels and making something whose most important use lies decades ahead.
Lacquer & Artistic Reinvention
The sea, painted in lacquer.
Shibata Zeshin used lacquer for more than the surface of a box. A late panel of breaking waves shows a craft changing the scale of its ambition.
Artist Places & Creative Practice
A way of looking that remains.
Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage is more than a photogenic black house. Its garden and working rooms show how attention can turn an unlikely setting into a creative world.
Optics & Continuing Systems
A new lens for an old language.
Leica’s first 35mm Noctilux brings an unusually wide aperture to a familiar field of view. The more interesting continuity is the system around it.
Adaptive Reuse & Aviation Architecture
The terminal you can stay with.
The TWA Flight Center no longer needs to function as its original airline terminal to remain an extraordinary place to arrive.
Motorcycles & Purposeful Geometry
The idea beneath the retro paint.
BMW’s R 12 G/S recalls an influential motorcycle, but its stronger case begins with wheel size, suspension and the intended journey.
Jewellery & Anatomical Design
The wrist completes the sculpture.
Elsa Peretti’s Bone Cuff makes anatomy part of jewellery design. Its left and right versions are not a minor ordering detail.
Whisky & Maturation Decisions
The cask after the cask.
Ardbeg Y2K 25 moves from bourbon casks into Spanish red-wine casks. The interesting story is a sequence of decisions, not simply a large age statement.
Contemporary Craft & Material Transformation
The knot made from leather and lacquer.
Nan Wei’s Knot-Loving looks unexpectedly solid. Its red, looping form begins with cow leather, linen and lacquer rather than ceramic or carved stone.