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fromElite Traveler
1 day ago

Jaeger-LeCoultre Unveils New Clocks at Milan Design Week

Jaeger-LeCoultre unveiled new clocks at Milan Design Week, including the Atmos Hybris Artistica Tellurium and a redesigned Memovox Travel Clock.
fromEsquire
4 days ago

5 Under-the-Radar Watch Brands Every Guy Should Know

Aera, founded in 2018, released its first two watches in 2022, showcasing modern tool watches with design codes from the mid-20th century.
Wearables
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

"Material Is Where the Story Begins": Studio NEiDA on Building Through Craft and Context

Studio NEiDA operates at the intersection of architectural practice, research, and curatorial work, focusing on how buildings emerge from the material and cultural conditions of a place.
Design
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fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

How a jeweler's quest to create the world's largest jeweled egg led to his downfall

Paul Kutchinsky's ambition to create the world's largest jeweled egg was driven by a desire to showcase British craftsmanship on a global stage, competing with the legendary Faberge eggs.
Berlin
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 weeks ago

These Handles, Knobs, and Pulls Form Like Italian Pasta

Hardware design is gaining recognition, with handles and knobs celebrated for their aesthetic and functional importance in home design.
fromInsideHook
1 week ago

The Little-Known Japanese Watchmaker Poised to Make a Splash at Watches and Wonders

Credor is making its official debut at Watches and Wonders, introducing three new releases, including two Goldfeather models and a new Locomotive reference.
Wearables
Design
fromAol
2 weeks ago

How a Brooklyn Studio Brings Craft to Home Hardware

Ellis Works transforms overlooked hardware into functional art, emphasizing craftsmanship and contemporary design inspired by immigrant traditions and personal history.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

Casio's special edition calculator handcrafted using traditional Japanese lacquering technique - Yanko Design

The S100X Urushi Edition, also known as The Special One, is a limited edition desktop calculator designed using a century-old Japanese Urushi lacquer technique.
Gadgets
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Watches like this $455,000 timepiece can't be made by a machine-and that's exactly why they're the ultimate flex amid the analog revival | Fortune

Complications in the timepiece world are highly desired. They hint that the wearer has stories to tell, that they're the type who needs to know the exact time in Berlin while they're lingering over omakase in Vancouver.
Wearables
Fashion & style
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
3 weeks ago

Craftsmanship Redefined: HANRO Atelier Celebrates Heritage Through Artistry

HANRO atelier honors craftsmanship and heritage through artistic collaborations, exemplified by the Spring/Summer 2026 collection with painter Charlotte Adam.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Save our soles! Cobblers on the 15 best ways to look after your shoes

The UK dumps 149m pairs of shoes in landfill annually. This is unacceptable when the vast majority can be fixed. Sometimes all it takes is a small gluing or stitching job, and you're only paying £4 then those shoes might last for another 12 months or even longer.
Running
fromColossal
1 month ago

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures

From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades. Often based on architectural details of real places, such as cities around Tuscany and Germany's Bamberg Cathedral, the sculptures portray intimate details of corners, vaulted ceilings, arcades, and stairwells that can sometimes be peeked through additional apertures.
Berlin music
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design

Video Craft exhibition explores how video, film, and early moving image technologies share formal and technical properties with traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass through encoding, looping, and sampling.
London food
fromIndependent
1 month ago

From Wicklow to the Arctic Circle: Meet the Irish carpenter keeping 500-year craft alive in Finland

John Gibbons, a Wicklow carpenter, abandoned his construction career in 2006 after a spontaneous decision while sitting in his car before work.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

On Industry, It All Comes Back to the Watch

Costume designer Laura Smith uses watches, jewelry, and clothing in Industry season four to signal character class and mobility, drawing inspiration from historical mourning jewelry traditions and Bosch's artistic density.
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

An ode to craftsmanship in software development

Your coding apprentice can build, at your direction, pretty much anything now. The task becomes more like conducting an orchestra than playing in it. Not all members of the orchestra want to conduct, but given that is where things are headed, I think we all need to consider it at least.
Software development
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
29 years ago

Bringing Back the Luster to the Grace

The Grace Apartment Hotel, a historic 1906 colonial structure, undergoes a million-dollar restoration to improve tenant living conditions while maintaining its affordable monthly rent of $255.
E-Commerce
fromInverse
2 months ago

60 Bougie Things That Both Look Awesome & Are So Damn Useful

Affordable, artful home and fashion items combine luxury aesthetics with practical, everyday functionality.
Careers
fromFortune
1 month ago

There are less than 2,000 watchmakers in the U.S., so Rolex has opened a trade school in Texas to tackle the shortage-it's already rivaling Harvard | Fortune

Rolex launched a tuition-free Watchmaking Training Center in Dallas to address the critical shortage of professional watchmakers in the U.S., attracting over 560 applicants for 27 spots in 2024.
Gadgets
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

The Best Skeleton and Openworked Watches

Skeletonized (openworked) watches expose pared-down movement components through transparent dials or casebacks so the mechanical movement can be viewed while worn.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Experience: I'm the last traditional clog maker in England

A solitary English clog maker handcrafts wooden-and-leather clogs from self-collected sycamore, finding therapeutic purpose and a peaceful, enduring rural craft late in life.
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

These Watches Are A Melange of Mood, Tone, and Supersaturation

Tonester and D1 Milano collaborate to transform architectural paint colors into wearable watch designs, shifting color from environmental scale to intimate personal objects.
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

This Reciprocating Detail Sander Works on Detailed Projects like Gundam Kits, Wood, and Jewelry - Yanko Design

NeoSander is a palm-sized, cordless linear-motor detail sander delivering up to 13,000 SPM and adjustable stroke for precise, low-vibration finishing in tight spaces.
Gadgets
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Apple and Google employees customized their own Tudor watches. Now they're up for sale.

Tudor created limited-edition watches for Apple and Google employee collector clubs; two such watches are currently for sale, one recently fetching over $10,000.
Arts
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Is globalisation killing craftsmanship?

The rise of fast, cheap mass production erodes handmade crafts, threatening sustainability, cultural identity, and artisanal skills in a profit-driven global economy.
fromElite Traveler
2 months ago

These One-of-a-Kind Chandeliers Take Hours to Make by Hand

Lighting is one of the most essential aspects of a home; it's also one of the most overlooked. The right illumination can create ambience, soften harsh edges, and imbue a sense of warmth. However, not all light sources are of the same quality. A custom chandelier, for instance, will always stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. These meticulously made creations can range from minimalist to monumental, bringing scale, ambition, and elegance into the room.
Design
Fashion & style
fromEsquire
2 months ago

22 Watch Brands You Need to Know

Watch brands cover all price ranges and styles, from affordable Casio, Seiko, Swatch to luxury Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

The Case for Heirloom Furniture in an Era Obsessed With Biodegradable Everything - Yanko Design

Furniture made from mycelium or algae can decompose in five years, sure, but a well-made antique armoire outlives empires because no one throws it away. Columns takes that logic seriously. Handcrafted in solid oak, natural leather, and horsehair, the pieces are built to last a thousand years, which sounds like marketing hyperbole until you look at the joinery, the hand stitching, and the material choices. This is furniture designed to be inherited, repaired, and remembered.
Design
Fashion & style
fromAnOther
2 months ago

Ssstein, the Japanese Label Creating Masterful Tailoring for the Everyday

Ssstein offers warm, unisex tailoring by Kiichiro Asakawa that celebrates everyday movement, memory, and the quiet poetry of ordinary moments.
Fashion & style
fromHarvard Business Review
3 months ago

How Italian Luxury Brand Golden Goose Determined Its Next Phase of Growth

A luxury brand built on crafted imperfection must choose between deepening sneaker roots, expanding into lifestyle categories, or accelerating global expansion to drive growth.
Design
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

Toledano & Chan's b/1.3r Meshes Brutalism and Luxury Like No Other Watch

Toledano & Chan's b/1 combines Brutalist architecture and luxury watchmaking to create a distinctive, vintage-inspired microbrand watch that commanded strong collector demand.
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