Modern Classics & Structural Design
More than the memory of a roadster.
The BMW Z8 looks back towards the 507, but its aluminium spaceframe makes the story more substantial than a borrowed silhouette.
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Footwear & Repairable Wardrobes
The next sole is part of the shoe.
J.M. Weston’s 180 loafer turns eighty in 2026. The useful story is not the anniversary itself, but the construction and restoration behind another period of wear.
Wine & Biological Ageing
The wine that makes room for air.
Château-Chalon asks you to reconsider what a white wine can become. Savagnin and years beneath a yeast veil produce a different relationship with time.
Art Glass & Material Intelligence
When the irregularities are the point.
Christopher Dresser’s Clutha glass allows colour, streaks and the character of molten material to become the ornament. A small historical object opens a large design question.
Living Collections & Changed Perspectives
The forest at another height.
Kew’s Treetop Walkway brings you into the canopy rather than asking you to admire it from below. The change in height is a change in understanding.
Electronic Instruments & Creative Interfaces
A different way into sound.
The Buchla Music Easel replaces familiar piano keys with touch plates and a field of connections. Its enduring idea is a different relationship between gesture and sound.
Museums & Daylight Architecture
A building that filters the sky.
Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus Bregenz is more than a glass box. Its envelope turns daylight into part of the experience of looking at art.
Leaning Vehicles & Alternative Engineering
The front end that asks another question.
Yamaha’s Niken puts two leaning wheels at the front of a motorcycle. It is a serious alternative arrangement, not just a visual trick.
Jewellery & Material Memory
Two rings from one beginning.
Mokumeganeya makes a shared origin visible in metal. Its Tsunagaru-Katachi rings connect a Japanese working technique with a ceremony the owners help complete.
Bourbon & The Craft of Blending
Six recipes inside one bottle.
Four Roses Small Batch Select makes blending easier to understand. Its published recipe system reveals choices that the word bourbon usually conceals.
Image: © Hiroshi Sugimoto / Object © Christian Dior Couture collection, Paris (opens source in a new tab)Photography & The Afterlife of Fashion
When a dress becomes sculpture.
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Stylized Sculpture changes how a garment is seen. His 2026 Dior photographs turn historical couture into a study of form, light and human absence.
Guided Landscapes & Ecological Knowledge
Learning to read the seabed.
A guided walk on Norderney’s tidal flats changes apparently empty ground into a landscape of evidence. The valuable part is learning what to notice.