Interview with Michael Hill, MD of handmade tie and accessories firm Drake’s
I am not a fashionista; trends may come and go (usually over my head – metaphorically rather than literally speaking), however, I have always had an interest in good clothes, a discerning appreciation…
Interview with Janus Cooper, Director of Tetrad; classic British handcrafted furniture.
Sumptuous in looks and comfort, classically elegant and built to last the tests of time, as well as the fickleness of fashion, a Tetrad piece looks equally at home in a medieval baronial…
An overview of the work and wisdom of British designer, Ilse Crawford.
Ilse Crawford, the prominent, celebrated and successful British designer, can sometimes appear stern and somewhat unapproachable in pictures. Yet having had the privilege to meet her at a launch party for her Georg…
Interview with Phil Abel, Founder of Hand & Eye Letterpress.
Letterpress printing is in my blood, yet I am ashamed to say I know very little about it. My grandfather worked in a letterpress printers from the 1920s until the late 1960s, from…
Interview with Éric Tourneret, world-renowned bee photographer.
The humble honey bee is a familiarly comforting sight on a warm sunny spring day, when for the first time, in what seems like an age, there seems to be real warmth in…
A focus on the work of Danish design legend, Hans J. Wegner.
Hans Jørgensen Wegner – Hans J. Wegner – the celebrated Danish designer, was a master when it came to designing chairs. Incredibly, he designed more than 500 chairs during the course of his…
An Interview with Seiichiro Mizuta from Echizen; knifemakers since 1337.
The Chino River, in Fukui-Prefecture, has been carrying iron-rich earth from the surrounding mountains into the sea since the Japanese islands were formed millions of years ago. However, around 700 years ago this…
Interview with Mark Hogarth, Creative Director of Harris Tweed Hebrides.
“Loom for sale with one bedroom house”, that is how important Clò Mòr, Gaelic for ‘The Big Cloth’, is in The Outer Hebrides – the hand-loom, the means of weaving Harris Tweed, this…
Interview with John Hunter Lobb, Chairman of John Lobb.
It could almost be a fairy tale… ‘Once upon a time, a crippled young country cordwainer from Cornwall called John Lobb sought his fortune in the city of London, only to be spurned…
Interview with Kieran Molloy, Joint Owner of Molloy & Sons, weavers of Donegal Tweed.
The raw drama of the landscape, the mountains and moorland, the sea and sky, of the north western-most tip of the Republic of Ireland, County Donegal, is mirrored in the natural beauty of…
