Culture Club
Despite its jokey connotations of naked Scandinavians rolling in snow and beating themselves with birch twigs, the sauna is a serious matter. Long revered for its therapeutic powers, it has now earned itself UNESCO status in Finland.
Despite its jokey connotations of naked Scandinavians rolling in snow and beating themselves with birch twigs, the sauna is a serious matter. Long revered for its therapeutic powers, it has now earned itself UNESCO status in Finland.
Meet the brands creating luxury designs that are almost good enough to eat
Cultural leader and social entrepreneur Annie Warburton on why we need to cultivate craftsmanship
Mick, the cab driver who has collected me from Audley End train station, is nattering away unapologetically as we slalom down country lanes. We arrive at a cluster of old barns. One of them is decorated by the stylish logo of the glass design studio Batch.
How a young fashion and textiles entrepreneur in south India has set up his own supply chain that starts from the soil – and is leading the way for a new method of making clothes that gives back more than it takes...
It’s the end of summer 2021 and the artists-in-residence at the Sarabande Foundation are preparing for the final night of their group show. For two weeks, the exhibitors have taken it in turns to man the bar. When they’re not pouring drinks, they are presenting their work to visiting gallerists, artists, journalists and collectors.
Proportion London represents the pinnacle of a most peculiar craft – the bizarre, perfectly formed world of life-size human mannequins...
Repair skills used to be passed down through the generations, until they weren’t. But now a rising culture of craft is celebrating the lost art of repair – and the stories to be found in the stitches. We meet three London-based artists who are helping to turn the tide...
If there was ever any doubt that trees are living creatures with a heart and soul, the ability to communicate, make mistakes, and to thrive in family groups, forester Peter Wohlleben is the person to prove it...
Tat sits perched on his haunches, spear in hand, watching and waiting. He is poised on the end of his kabang, the sailboat he has crafted from a single log, on which he, his wife, Sabai, and their three boys live. They are the last of the so-called sea gypsies; the Moken people who for centuries have lived in flotillas around the Surin Islands, in the south of the Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea, sailing across invisible borders with no ties to land.
As a curator of craft, and co-founder of The New Craftsmen, Catherine Lock has spent years travelling the world in search of the finest craftsmanship. Here she shares some of her favourite pieces collected from her trips – from Ireland to Ethiopia and beyond.
It grows abundantly without the need for extra resources, it’s a rich source of vitamins and minerals, and it can be used for fabrics, furniture and dyes, energy solutions and housing.