Makers

Unglazed ceramic heads and pine cones on the shelves at Ceramica Bevilacqua in Campofranco, Sicily

Campofranco

Antonio and Giuseppe Bevilacqua grew up in Campofranco, a small town in the interior of Sicily, near the Valley of the Temples. They didn't come to ceramics through an apprenticeship....

Campofranco

Antonio and Giuseppe Bevilacqua grew up in Campofranco, a small town in the interior of Sicily, near the Valley of the Temples. They didn't come to ceramics through an apprenticeship....

Cellerini Firenze, Made in Italy, stamped into pink pebbled leather

Via del Sole

Cellerini has been making leather goods in Florence since the late 1950s - the same address, the same workbenches, the same craft. This is the other Florence. The one that...

Via del Sole

Cellerini has been making leather goods in Florence since the late 1950s - the same address, the same workbenches, the same craft. This is the other Florence. The one that...

NasonMoretti's stacked Jellyfish glass centrepieces in green, plum and amber beside a blue Murano glass bowl

The Table, Not the Chandelier

NasonMoretti has been blowing glass on Murano since 1923 - the only family-run furnace on the island to reach a hundred years intact. They chose the table over the chandelier,...

The Table, Not the Chandelier

NasonMoretti has been blowing glass on Murano since 1923 - the only family-run furnace on the island to reach a hundred years intact. They chose the table over the chandelier,...

A single green stem in a mouth-blown olive glass vase by La Soufflerie

Fewer Than Five

When Sébastien Nobile looked into how many professional glassblowers remained in the Paris region, the number he found was fewer than five.

Fewer Than Five

When Sébastien Nobile looked into how many professional glassblowers remained in the Paris region, the number he found was fewer than five.

Pressed pink blossoms scattered across dark indigo silk

Made, Not Generated

On artificial intelligence, human hands, and what it means to make something that remembers an afternoon.

Made, Not Generated

On artificial intelligence, human hands, and what it means to make something that remembers an afternoon.

Two makers in work aprons at the door of their workshop

Buying Less, Buying Better: Beautiful Things, H...

  We live in an era of extraordinary abundance. Shops overflow, delivery vans idle outside our front doors, and yet so many of the objects we bring into our homes...

Buying Less, Buying Better: Beautiful Things, H...

  We live in an era of extraordinary abundance. Shops overflow, delivery vans idle outside our front doors, and yet so many of the objects we bring into our homes...