Category: Craft

The department store model — the aggregation of everything available everywhere — has utility, but it does not have a point of view. A point of view requires exclusion. It requires a buyer who says no to ninety percent of a season’s output to present the ten p

The heirloom is a piece that outlives the occasion for which it was made. It passes from the person who commissioned it through their children, their grandchildren, possibly their grandchildren’s children — carrying the original intention forward in a form tha

The table is an argument about values. Every choice on it — the weight of the glass, the texture of the cloth, the temperature of the plates, the position of the salt — communicates something about the host’s relationship to pleasure, to material quality, and

The word vintage has been so thoroughly colonised by the mass market that it requires recalibration before applying it to the rooms and dealers discussed here. What follows has nothing to do with weekend markets, pre-loved racks, or the thrift culture that has

Fragrance is the most intimate of the luxury arts. It is worn on the body rather than carried beside it, perceived by others before a word is spoken, remembered long after the occasion has dissolved. A perfume can locate a decade, an afternoon, a particular pe

In Paris, the couture calendar is a liturgy — dates as fixed as feast days, maisons as ancient as the boulevards themselves. In Sydney, the atelier tradition is younger, less codified, and precisely because of that, more interesting. The people working here di