Category: Sydney

The best meal served in Sydney on any given evening is served at a private address. This is not a romanticised claim about domestic cooking; it is a practical observation about the conditions in which extraordinary food gets made. The serious home cook, workin

At the level at which it is practised by a small number of people, floristry is an art that operates in four dimensions. The first three are the usual ones — the form of the arrangement, its colour, its texture. The fourth is time: the specific, irreversible t

The handwritten letter has not declined. It has become rare, which is an entirely different thing — and rarity, in matters of communication as in matters of wine, is not the enemy of value but its amplifier. In an era when every message arrives in the same san

There is a category of object that occupies the boundary between craft and art with enough confidence that the distinction stops being useful. A ceramic bowl made by someone who has spent twenty years understanding how particular clays respond to particular ki

The merino sheep was introduced to Australia in the late eighteenth century, and the country has spent the two and a half centuries since quietly becoming the world’s dominant producer of the finest wool on earth. Australian Superfine merino — bred predominant

The appreciation of fine leather relies on a fundamental truth: a properly made leather object is one of the few things you can buy that looks significantly better after ten years of hard use than it did on the day of acquisition. This assumes, however, that t

The suit that fits is not a luxury. It is the baseline of a dressed person’s credibility — the garment from which everything else in the wardrobe derives its meaning. And yet most men, even those who consider themselves well-dressed, have never owned a genuine

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