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Do latão e de quem o bate

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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
9 min de leitura

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
5 min de leitura

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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