Living Workshops & Musical Craft
The work inside a bell’s voice.
At the Paccard foundry museum near Annecy, a familiar sound becomes a made object. Casting, tuning and maintenance reveal why a bell’s long life depends on more than bronze.
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Furniture & Adaptable Interiors
The shelf that leaves the next move open.
Kajsa and Nisse Strinning’s String shelving makes its supports part of its identity. The enduring idea is a room that can change without starting again.
Architecture & Public Ground
The museum that gives the roof to the city.
Amos Rex puts its galleries underground and makes their roof a public landscape. Helsinki gains an art museum without losing the life of the square above it.
Modern Classics & Alternative Car Design
The car that kept an unusual question alive.
The Renault Avantime gave a coupé the space and light of a people carrier. Its appeal survives in a driving environment that the familiar categories still do not quite explain.
Fashion Archives & Textile Invention
The dress whose structure is its decoration.
Fortuny’s Delphos puts pleating, weight and movement ahead of a rigid silhouette. It remains a useful lesson in how a garment can carry value through the intelligence of its construction.
Pisco & Regional Distilling Knowledge
The grape without the oak.
Pisco Waqar offers another way to read a spirit’s value. Muscat grapes, a Chilean valley and distilling decisions matter here without an age statement or a darkened cask.
Public Art & Material Reconsideration
The material you recognise too late.
Bordalo II’s Half Rabbit makes an animal appear from discarded things on a corner in Gaia. The second look, when the materials become recognisable, is where the work begins.
Gardens & Knowledge You Can Use
The garden that starts with the ground.
Beth Chatto’s gardens teach a form of judgement that travels home with the visitor. Begin with the conditions you have, then discover what can flourish there.
Lighting & Mechanical Intelligence
The arms are also the wires.
Richard Sapper’s Tizio turns balance, structure and electrical conduction into one spare silhouette. The clever part is not what was added, but what became unnecessary.
Housing & Collective Stewardship
The residents who kept the idea alive.
Walden 7 is more than a striking red building. Its residents’ account reveals an architectural experiment that survived through repair, organisation and continued habitation.
Sports Cars & Driver Participation
The value of doing the changing.
The 2026 Lotus Emira V6 SE keeps a manual gearbox at the centre of a modern sports car. Its case begins with participation, not a prediction that it will become collectible.
Jewellery & Sculptural Form
A ring that turns with the hand.
Vhernier’s Tourbillon sets warm rose gold against dark titanium. Its strongest argument is a form designed around the hand, not the amount of precious metal it contains.