Woodworking Is Losing Its Macho Edge Thanks to These Women

Woodworking Is Losing Its Macho Edge Thanks to These Women

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 …

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Can a Finnish Sauna Improve Society?

Can a Finnish Sauna Improve Society?

ON A WARM September afternoon in subarctic Finland, the architect Laura Mattila kneels in the grass beside a sauna that she and Mikko Merz, her 49-year-old partner in life and work, built eight years ago in the factory town turned artists’ colony of Fiskars, an hour’s drive west from Helsinki. …

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