IN 1888, THE Swedish painter Carl Larsson and his wife, Karin, were given a remote log cottage in the village of Sundborn, 140 miles north of Stockholm, by her father. Over three decades, the couple transformed the house, which they named Lilla Hyttnäs, into an elaborate meta-art project, a hand-embellished …
This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects. It often starts with a box. These utilitarian objects are expressions of a woodworker’s technical rigor and style. But for Wendy Maruyama, who earned a master’s degree in furniture design from the Rochester Institute of …
This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects. It took nearly five years for Kyre Chenven and Ivano Atzori to buy a cluster of ruined houses in southern Sardinia. The single-story buildings, or rather, the skeletons that remained, once made up a furriadroxu, …
The jewellery industry is on the cusp of significant transformation as it approaches 2025. Driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer preferences, and a heightened focus on sustainability, the sector is poised for dynamic changes. Let’s share the much-anticipated trends for 2025 and examine the jewellery market’s evolution over recent years. …