Electronic Watchmaking & Technical Revivals
The return of the hum.
Accutron’s Spaceview 314 brings tuning-fork timekeeping back into a current watch. The attraction is an unusual way of keeping time, not a claim to beat every quartz movement.
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Awamori & Living Cellar Traditions
A spirit with a culture of caretaking.
At Zuisen in Shuri, awamori opens a different conversation about ageing. Kusu belongs to a culture of making, storing and understanding a rice spirit.
Korean Textile Art & Everyday Use
The pieces become the composition.
Jogakbo turns joined pieces of cloth into a deliberate arrangement of colour and seams. Kang Keum Seong’s documented work shows how that language can enter everyday objects.
Stained Glass & Learning to Look
Colour brought within reach.
The Cité du Vitrail in Troyes brings stained glass out of the distant window and into close study. Workshops offer a further route from admiration to understanding.
Electronic Instruments & Creative Possibility
A synthesizer with room for other scales.
Korg’s revived PS-3300 brings an unusual analogue architecture back into production. The important return is a way of making sound, not a scarcity premium.
Adaptive Reuse & Hospitality
A second life inside Breuer’s concrete.
Hotel Marcel turns a former office building by Marcel Breuer into a place to stay. Its strongest proposition is that preservation and demanding new performance can be pursued together.
Compact Electric Mobility
How much vehicle does a city journey need?
The Microlino asks a useful question about short urban journeys. How much vehicle is enough when the job is to move one or two people and their things?
Watches & Design Continuity
Not every watch needs a circle.
Hamilton’s Ventura Edge Skeleton carries an asymmetric design idea into a different mechanism. Its interest lies in the continuity of a visual language, not a claim to reproduce the original watch.
Sherry & Patient Cellar Knowledge
Thirty years is not a birthday.
Bodegas Tradición’s Amontillado VORS carries the effects of two kinds of ageing. Understanding their sequence is more revealing than simply admiring a large number on a label.
Botanical Art & Close Observation
She built the flower from paper.
Mary Delany’s Botanical Study is not simply a painted flower. Its paper construction turns close looking into a material practice, begun when the artist was already in her seventies.
Working Infrastructure & Engineering Encounters
A boat ride through a physics lesson.
At the Falkirk Wheel, a boat ride becomes a lesson in displacement and balance. The spectacle has a practical purpose: reconnecting two canal systems at different levels.
Industrial Design & Domestic Audio
The machine that stopped hiding.
Hans Gugelot and Dieter Rams gave the Braun SK 4 a transparent lid. A radio and record player no longer needed to pretend to be a piece of traditional furniture.