Cartography & Globes
Turn the world the other way up.
A handmade globe makes the familiar map strange again, without changing the planet.
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Glass & Everyday Design
The detail at the bottom of the glass.
Adolf Loos’s 1931 glassware hides its most elaborate work where you might least expect it.
Fragrance & Glass
The bottle after the perfume.
Perfumer H separates the life of a fragrance from the life of the vessel that holds it.
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.
Wine and Cellar Stewardship
What an old bottle needs.
Penfolds’ recorking clinics turn an ageing bottle into a question of condition, custody and informed intervention.
Bicycles and Personal Mobility
A different idea of a bicycle.
The Moulton NS D-Pylon makes compact wheels, suspension and a separable frame part of one enduring engineering idea.
Contemporary Lacquer
Light held in lacquer.
Keiji Onihira’s small makie box makes a changing natural scene visible through layers of lacquer and metal powder.
Utility Aircraft
The aircraft that still has a job.
The DHC-2 Beaver remains compelling because its shape follows a real mission and an active support system still exists around the type.
Textiles and Wearable Art
The landscape inside a scarf.
Kermit Oliver’s Madison Avenue scarf shows how an authored image can matter more than the familiar luxury name around it.
Architecture and Stays
A ruin made room for living.
Astley Castle lets people inhabit a protected ruin because the new architecture makes its losses visible rather than pretending them away.
Independent Watchmaking
Two balances, one conversation.
F.P. Journe’s current Chronomètre à Résonance turns the interaction between two regulators into the reason for the watch.
Contemporary Craft and Interiors
A home woven into a wall.
The Frafra Tapestry project translates a family compound in northern Ghana into a work woven by the people who know its spaces.