Experiences & Living Craft
A castle built to understand.
A medieval watermill rebuilt from archaeological evidence reveals what Guédelon preserves: knowledge that must be practised to stay alive.
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Vineyards & Productive Places
The land behind the bottle.
Familija Estate in Slovenia offers a useful shift of perspective: from wanting a bottle to understanding the place and work behind it.
Yachts & Classic Boats
The Aquarama, beyond the postcard.
Riva’s wooden runabout is an invitation to consider design, use and care together before treating a beautiful boat as a financial asset.
The Cirrus SR family makes a useful starting point for a different kind of value question: what can this aircraft do for the journeys you actually make?
Motorcycles
A superbike with a way back.
To help keep the RC30 on the road, Honda had to recover more than spare parts. It had to recover the knowledge of making them.
Motorcycles
The distance in a silhouette.
The BMW R 90 S makes a small fairing and a distinctive paint finish feel like part of the same idea.
Motorcycles & Design
The motorcycle shaped in the rain.
With the Ducati 916, Massimo Tamburini made performance and proportion difficult to separate. The story begins with looking closely.
Objects & Design
A system that can follow you.
A shelf, a workspace, a different home. Dieter Rams’s 606 system makes the ability to change part of what you buy.
Jewellery & Art
When a jewel becomes a creature.
René Lalique’s dragonfly-woman makes a jewel feel closer to a small, unsettling work of theatre than a display of precious stones.
Sound & Listening
A sculpture that plays.
Avantgarde Acoustic’s TRIO G3 makes the loudspeaker impossible to ignore. The quieter question is what can be renewed inside it.
Fragrance
A perfume remembered by nose.
L’Iris de Fath revisits a vanished composition through smelling and interpretation, not access to a secret original formula.
Rare Objects
A window into an asteroid.
Olivine crystals suspended in metal: the Imilac meteorite makes deep time visible at the scale of an object.