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78 results for Repair
78 results for “Repair”
Architecture & The Ethics of Restoration
Berlin’s Neues Museum shows another way to bring a damaged building back. Old fabric and new intervention remain distinguishable without making the place unusable.
Read the storyWearable Craft & Repair
Borsalino’s felt-hat workshop explains what can happen after wear changes a hat. Blocking and repair make the next chapter more concrete.
Read the storyClothing & Repair
Barbour’s wax-jacket repair and re-wax service turns the marks of use into a maintenance question, not an automatic shopping prompt.
Read the storyRepairable Technology & Useful Lifespans
Framework Laptop 13 makes replacement parts and repair instructions part of the product. Even its mainboard can have a job outside the original computer.
Read the storyFootwear & Repairable Wardrobes
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.
Read the storyFootwear & Repairable Construction
Red Wing’s Iron Ranger makes the next sole part of the ownership question. The useful detail is construction, not the romance of a worn boot.
Read the storyLandscape Repair & Hands-on Learning
A dry-stone walling course turns a landscape feature into a skill you can practice. The value is in the work learned, not only the scenery.
Read the storyLuggage & Travel Objects
The interesting part of this green case is not a famous traveller. It is the material and the route back to repair.
Read the storyBags & Style
The Hermès Kelly is famous for its outline. Its more useful lesson is that construction, care and skilled repair decide whether an object can have another life.
Read the storyHousing & Collective Stewardship
Walden 7 is more than a striking red building. Its residents’ account reveals an architectural experiment that survived through repair, organisation and continued habitation.
Read the storyModernist Homes & Material Reconstruction
Villa Cavrois looks remarkably assured for a house once abandoned and vandalised. Its restoration reveals how much knowledge is needed to recover an architectural idea, not simply repair its walls.
Read the storyFashion & Conservation
A damaged Fortuny Delphos gown has recovered its extraordinary pleats. The repair reveals how much knowledge can live inside a surface.
Read the storyReading path
A lamp, a jacket, a camera and a boat. Four different ways to give something another working life.
Follow this ideaPhotographic Instruments & Ways of Seeing
A Rolleiflex twin-lens camera separates looking from exposing the film. The lasting attraction is not simply the image it makes, but the attention its design asks of you.
Read the storyExperimental Road Cars
The BMW Z1’s doors are the invitation. Its combination of structure, composite floor and separate plastic body panels is the deeper reason to look.
Read the storyMaritime Heritage & Conservation in Practice
At Discovery Point in Dundee, a polar ship offers more than an expedition story. Its continuing conservation makes the work of keeping history tangible part of the experience.
Read the storyElectronic Watchmaking & Technical Revivals
Accutron’s Spaceview 314 brings tuning-fork timekeeping back into a current watch. The attraction is an unusual way of keeping time, not a claim to beat every quartz movement.
Read the storyIndustrial Design & Domestic Audio
Hans Gugelot and Dieter Rams gave the Braun SK 4 a transparent lid. A radio and record player no longer needed to pretend to be a piece of traditional furniture.
Read the storyJewellery & Fine Metalwork
Buccellati’s 2026 Opera Tulle platinum pendants make the spaces between metal part of the design. Chrysoprase adds colour without making the stone the whole story.
Read the storyCameras & Everyday Creative Practice
The Ricoh GR IV makes a serious photographic tool small enough for ordinary days. Its most interesting specification is the chance that you actually brought it.
Read the storyJewellery & Sculptural Form
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.
Read the storyModern Classics & Structural Design
The BMW Z8 looks back towards the 507, but its aluminium spaceframe makes the story more substantial than a borrowed silhouette.
Read the storyEmerging Vehicles & Electric Architecture
Renault’s 5 Turbo 3E borrows a familiar silhouette but proposes a very different mechanical arrangement. The engineering deserves attention before the collectible narrative.
Read the storyJewellery & Lapidary Knowledge
Van Cleef & Arpels’ Poissons Mystérieux clip makes coloured sapphires read like water. The important part is the skilled construction you struggle to see.
Read the storyContemporary Paper Sculpture
Naoki Onogawa builds tree-like sculptures from tiny folded cranes. Look closely and a familiar silhouette becomes an accumulation of individual acts.
Read the storyCameras & Ways of Seeing
Hasselblad’s XPan makes a panorama by exposing a wider area of film. It offers a different proposition from cropping the top and bottom of a conventional frame.
Read the storyVehicles & Composite Architecture
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.
Read the storyLeatherwork & Japanese Gilding
A Delvaux Tempête brings Kanazawa leaf work to the joins of a leather bag. The interesting detail is where two craft traditions meet.
Read the storyFibre Sculpture & Material Intelligence
Gjertrud Hals’s Scala gives thread a sculptural presence. Open structure, rather than a solid wall, allows the vessels to occupy space.
Read the storyCognac & Intergenerational Craft
Behind the conspicuous Louis XIII decanter is a quieter story about coopers, old oak vessels and making something whose most important use lies decades ahead.
Read the storyMaking Experiences & Working Knowledge
A short course at Gränsfors Bruk changes the relationship between a tool and its owner. The object becomes a record of decisions you have begun to understand.
Read the storyAnalogue Recording & Factory Restoration
The Revox B77 makes recording physically visible. Its stronger claim to longevity lies beyond the turning reels, in a manufacturer that still restores its older machines.
Read the storyFlorentine Hardstone Inlay & Living Workshops
In commesso fiorentino, a vein in a stone can become fur, a petal or a distant hill. The surprising art is not painting on minerals, but finding the picture within them and fitting its pieces together.
Read the storyReused Materials & Everyday Bags
A FREITAG tarpaulin bag turns a fragment of transport graphics into an everyday object. The cut matters as much as the material’s previous life.
Read the storyFilm Cameras & Modular Tools
The Nikon F2 separates the camera body from the way a photographer looks and meters. A replaceable finder makes its system worth understanding, not merely collecting.
Read the storyWatchmaking & Wearable Proportion
The NOMOS Tangente 33 champagne, reference 151, pairs a small, legible case with a named hand-wound movement and an identifiable service route.
Read the storyMechanical Calculation & Precision Instruments
The Curta makes calculation physical. Turn a crank and a remarkable compact mechanism does what a screen now hides.
Read the storyWriting Instruments & Daily Rituals
The Pelikan M800 makes refilling part of the object. The interesting question is not how impressive a pen looks, but what keeps it in your hand.
Read the storySynthesizers & Musical Instruments
The Yamaha DX7 is often treated as the sound of the 1980s. Its more enduring idea is that a familiar machine can still be a place to invent.
Read the storyFolding Kayaks & Portable Boats
The Klepper Aerius separates a boat into a frame and a skin. That changes both how you keep it and what may be possible when one part wears out.
Read the storyTypewriters & Writing Tools
The Olivetti Lettera 22 makes writing a physical sequence of decisions. Its design history matters, but a working keyboard matters more.
Read the storyTextiles & Material Provenance
Harris Tweed’s Orb tells a more useful story than a vague claim of heritage. It connects cloth to a defined place and method of making.
Read the storyRecording Equipment & Sound
A portable stereo tape recorder from 1971 makes precision visible, but its real appeal depends on more than watching the reels turn.
Read the storyAuthored Furniture
A Nakashima chair invites two kinds of looking: at the wood itself, and at the record of its making.
Read the storyArt & Design
Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 has stayed in production since 1933 with three legs, a round seat and one structural idea worth repeating.
Read the storySelection / Objects
A familiar café chair makes a larger point: lasting value needs a practical route back into use.
Read the storyDistinctive Road Cars & Ownership
The classic Saab 900 Turbo combines an unmistakable body with a particular engineering history. Its appeal becomes stronger when the badge is separated from the condition of the actual car.
Read the storyFurniture & Structural Elegance
Gio Ponti’s Superleggera makes lightness a construction problem. Its slender frame is the result of material choices and joints, not simply a thin outline.
Read the storyWood Mosaic & Decorative Arts
Tunbridge ware builds images from small pieces of wood rather than painting them onto a surface. A nineteenth-century watch box turns that technique into something unexpectedly useful.
Read the storyFurniture & Material Intelligence
Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool finds its character in two matching pieces of moulded plywood. Its lasting interest is how little is needed to make the idea complete.
Read the storyNatural-History Books & Visual Culture
Kunstformen der Natur gives unfamiliar organisms an extraordinary graphic presence. Its plates invite close looking, while its historical authority requires a more critical eye.
Read the storyBooks & The Art of Printing
The Kelmscott Chaucer makes type, illustration and the printed page inseparable. Its lesson is available through close looking, even when the original is far beyond reach.
Read the storyJewellery & Industrial Techniques
Bulgari’s 2026 Tubogas Gold & Steel makes an industrial construction idea visible on the body. The flexible coil matters as much as the gold.
Read the storyJewellery & Material Memory
Mokumeganeya makes a shared origin visible in metal. Its Tsunagaru-Katachi rings connect a Japanese working technique with a ceremony the owners help complete.
Read the storyElectronic Instruments & Musical Culture
Roland’s TR-808 matters because musicians found a future in sounds that did not convincingly imitate an acoustic drum kit.
Read the storySports Cars & Chassis Design
The Caterham CSR looks familiar. Its suspension shows why the outline of a long-lived car does not tell you everything about its engineering.
Read the storyFurniture & Material Evolution
The Panton Chair survived as an idea partly because its material did not stay the same. Its history includes a failure worth understanding.
Read the storyCut Glass & Contemporary Craft Collaborations
A 2026 TOKIMEKI collaboration places Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko glass above a machined metal base, giving the cut surface a different role in a room.
Read the storyLightweight Sports Cars & Ownership Judgement
The second-generation Alpine A110 finished production in July 2026. Its enduring argument is the engineering beneath its modest scale, not an automatic rise in price.
Read the storyPortable Sailing & Inflatable Structures
Tiwal changes a less glamorous part of sailing: storing and moving the boat. An inflatable hull and dismantling frame make access to the water part of the design problem.
Read the storyDecorative Arts & Contemporary Material Collaboration
Levantina brings Tessitura Bevilacqua velvet into Materica’s metal-surface world. Its appeal lies in the friction between two material traditions, not a generic claim of Venetian luxury.
Read the storyJasperware & Material Invention
Wedgwood’s jasperware can look familiar enough to escape a second glance. Its more surprising story begins beneath the white relief, in an experimental ceramic body rather than painted blue decoration.
Read the storyVacuum Jugs & Serviceable Domestic Design
Erik Magnussen’s Stelton EM77 makes a simple serving gesture distinctive. A replaceable glass insert gives the familiar cylinder another practical reason to stay.
Read the storyAccessible Motoring & Historical Engineering
The Citroën 2CV made comfort and simple transport the point. Its enduring appeal begins with the problem it was designed to solve.
Read the storyMetal Inlay & Material Transformation
In Bidriware, silver becomes luminous because of the dark metal around it. The making changes the way an object is read.
Read the storyRoadsters & Restoration Support
The first Mazda MX-5 has something more useful than a nostalgic following: a documented factory restoration story. Its limits matter too.
Read the storyDenim & Everyday Design
The familiar pockets of Levi’s 501 jeans contain a history of practical revisions. Recognising it makes a better starting point than chasing a vintage label.
Read the storyLighting & Everyday Design
The Anglepoise Original 1227 connects a familiar silhouette to something less visible: a way to keep it working.
Read the storyClassic Cars & Engineering
The DS made comfort an engineering ambition. A surviving example only keeps that promise when the less photogenic work has been done.
Read the storyTools & Precision Instruments
A bronze smoothing plane earns its place through the surfaces it makes and the skill it invites.
Read the storyContemporary Craft and Interiors
The Frafra Tapestry project translates a family compound in northern Ghana into a work woven by the people who know its spaces.
Read the storyRare Books & Maps
Ortelius’s 1570 atlas shows why an old map’s identity matters as much as its beauty.
Read the storyDecorative Arts
Clara Driscoll’s design offers a more precise way to see one of Tiffany Studios’ most recognisable lamps.
Read the storyMusical Instruments
The Messiah’s extraordinary condition makes it a witness to its maker, without settling which violin sounds best.
Read the storyRare Books
Darwin’s Origin of Species appeared in 1859. So did copies that are not the first edition. The book teaches us how bibliographic evidence works.
Read the storyCameras and Image Making
The Leica M3 arrived in 1954 with a new bayonet mount and rangefinder system. Its lasting importance lives in a working ecosystem, not a shelf.
Read the storyYachts & Classic Boats
Riva’s wooden runabout is an invitation to consider design, use and care together before treating a beautiful boat as a financial asset.
Read the storyMotorcycles
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.
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