Diario

Del latón y de quienes lo golpean

Diario

Del latón y de quienes lo golpean

28 de julio de 20266 min de lectura

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 de julio de 20269 min de lectura

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 de junio de 20265 min de lectura

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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