Diario

Dell'ottone e di chi lo batte

Diario

Dell'ottone e di chi lo batte

28 luglio 20266 min di lettura

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 luglio 20269 min di lettura

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 giugno 20265 min di lettura

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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