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Image: Goulet Pens (opens source in a new tab)↗

Namiki’s vermilion No.20 turns an everyday gesture into an encounter with Japanese lacquer.

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The first Elise 111S has a specific engineering identity. Buying one well requires an equally specific reading of the car.

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You do not need to own Jørn Utzon’s Mallorcan house to take something lasting from it.

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Hemmerle’s Harmony begins with a practical gesture, then makes room for extraordinary material combinations.

Image: Bestevaer / KM Yachtbuilders (opens source in a new tab)↗

The Bestevaer 36 makes access, shelter and a specific kind of sailing more interesting than size.

Image: Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette (opens source in a new tab)↗

At La Tourette, a former friar’s cell offers a way to encounter Le Corbusier’s architecture at the pace of a stay.

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The Takahashi FC-100DZ makes an unusual material useful in a very ordinary ambition: seeing more.

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Real wheat, gold leaf and a mechanical musical movement make an unexpected contemporary automaton.

Image: Globe-Trotter (opens source in a new tab)↗

The interesting part of this green case is not a famous traveller. It is the material and the route back to repair.

Image: Divine Cellar (opens source in a new tab)↗

Hine’s Early Landed tradition asks a better question than age alone: where did the years happen?

Image: Lie-Nielsen Toolworks (opens source in a new tab)↗

A bronze smoothing plane earns its place through the surfaces it makes and the skill it invites.

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The Cristal Baschet makes the boundary between musical instrument and sculpture feel surprisingly unnecessary.