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Design stories, stones and metals, and guides to choosing and caring.
Craftsmanship
A golden surface seems like an obvious improvement—until the evidence says otherwise. Colombia’s Nahuange metalwork challenges the assumption that technical innovation must serve our own idea of luxury.
In Prussia’s 1813 war effort, jewellery became evidence of what its wearer had surrendered. Berlin iron shows how a cheap material can carry an expensive mea...
In occupied Copenhagen, two Nobel medals survived because their maker’s art was undone. The gold’s disappearance exposes a remarkable distinction between a m...
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