Photography & Artistic Collaboration
A photograph through someone else’s glass.
For Hikari, Kensaku Kakimoto photographed through glass works by Ritsue Mishima. The glass is not only the subject. It becomes part of how the image is made.
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Arita Porcelain & Rediscovery
The porcelain waiting for another table.
At Kouraku Kiln in Arita, a basket and a warehouse turn ceramic discovery into a hands-on experience. The best find may be something you will actually use.
Furniture & Industrial Imagination
A tractor seat, reconsidered.
The Castiglioni brothers’ Mezzadro moves an agricultural silhouette into the home. Its wit depends on how the parts work together, not simply where the seat came from.
Art Deco & Architectural Stewardship
The villa that needed another life.
Villa Empain in Brussels is more than a restored Art Deco interior. Its continuing public life shows what preservation has to do after the photographs are taken.
Vehicles & Composite Architecture
The future, with a service history.
The BMW i8’s lasting interest lies beneath its futuristic silhouette. Its carbon passenger cell and hybrid architecture now need to be read alongside an individual car’s history.
Watches & Mechanical Legibility
Digital time, entirely mechanical.
A. Lange & Söhne’s Zeitwerk Date uses jumping numerals without electronics. The apparent simplicity of reading it depends on considerable mechanical work.
Wine & Regional Identity
The experiment that found its place.
Sassicaia began as a private Cabernet experiment at Tenuta San Guido. Its significance is how an unfamiliar idea helped change the understanding of a place.
Contemporary Sculpture & Industrial Craft
The factory inside the sculpture.
Jobe Burns’s Laying Vessel carries metalworking knowledge into contemporary sculpture. The contrast between its rusted shell and red interior is only the beginning.
Astronomy & Working Heritage
An evening at the eyepiece.
Mount Wilson’s public observing programme makes a historic telescope a working encounter with the sky. The experience is looking, not collecting another image.
Electronic Instruments & Musical Culture
The drum machine that became a language.
Roland’s TR-808 matters because musicians found a future in sounds that did not convincingly imitate an acoustic drum kit.
Architecture & Human Dignity
A building that lowers the threshold.
Snøhetta’s Maggie’s Aberdeen puts thoughtful architecture at the service of people affected by cancer. Its purpose is more important than its sculptural outline.
Motorcycles & Structural Materials
Carbon that carries the motorcycle.
On Ducati’s 2020 Superleggera V4, carbon fibre is not just a surface treatment. It carries loads in the frame, swingarm and wheels.