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Über Messing und die, die es schlagen

Journal

Über Messing und die, die es schlagen

28. Juli 20266 Min. Lesezeit

Why brass darkens, and why we let it

Every house that works in brass faces the same question on day one: lacquer it, or leave it. We leave it. Here is the argument for a metal that refuses to stay new.

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History

11. Juli 20269 Min. Lesezeit

The cowrie was money before it was ornament

For four centuries the shell we set into a ring was a unit of account from Bengal to Benin. Wearing one is not a motif. It is a citation.

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The house

30. Juni 20265 Min. Lesezeit

The economics of making exactly one

A mould pays for itself at the two-hundredth cast. We never reach it. What that does to a price, and what it buys you that a run of two hundred cannot.

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