Making Experiences & Working Knowledge
The axe you learn to make.
A short course at Gränsfors Bruk changes the relationship between a tool and its owner. The object becomes a record of decisions you have begun to understand.
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Furniture & Material Evolution
The chair that had to change.
The Panton Chair survived as an idea partly because its material did not stay the same. Its history includes a failure worth understanding.
Libraries & Public Architecture
A city within the books.
At Mexico City’s Biblioteca Vasconcelos, suspended bookshelves make knowledge feel like a landscape you can enter.
Restomods & Commissioned Engineering
The car as a new composition.
Singer’s Carrera Coupe does not preserve a 911 by leaving it untouched. It makes the boundary between restoration and reinterpretation worth examining.
Shoemaking & Living Archives
An archive you can wear.
John Lobb’s 2026 revival of the Lazenby shows how an archive can supply something more useful than a retrospective exhibition.
Champagne & Vintage Selection
The year behind the label.
Dom Pérignon Vintage 2017 offers a way to read a Champagne through the decisions made in a difficult growing season, rather than through the prestige of its name.
Cut Glass & Contemporary Craft Collaborations
The cut that becomes light.
A 2026 TOKIMEKI collaboration places Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko glass above a machined metal base, giving the cut surface a different role in a room.
Food Culture & Experimental Experiences
A meal that asks something back.
Mugaritz’s 2026 season treats familiar assumptions as material to work with. Its appeal is not the promise of a universally pleasing dinner.
Lighting & Practical Ingenuity
The hole in the marble.
Flos Arco puts overhead light where there is no ceiling fitting. Its most revealing detail may be the hole through its heavy marble base.
Adaptive Reuse & Cultural Infrastructure
The space inside the silos.
At Zeitz MOCAA, an extraordinary entrance was carved from a structure designed to hold grain. The old tubes become the starting point for a new public interior.
Compact Mobility & Folding Design
The journey after you park.
Honda’s Motocompacto folds a small seated electric scooter into a remarkably plain rectangle. Its subject is the awkward distance between transport and destination.
Jewellery & Wearable Mechanisms
The springs inside the gold.
FOPE’s Flex’it bracelets conceal small gold springs inside a linked structure. The clever part is not how much metal is visible, but how easily the jewellery can be worn.