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An amateur painting at a home dining table
Not Every Hobby Needs to Become Something
The first thing people ask when you become good at something is whether you could sell it. There are other ways for a pleasure to matter. Read more...
The Last Repairman
The Last Repairman
Taste · The Hands · No. 05 The Last Repairman The man in your city who still fixes what everyone else has agreed to throw away. Find him before he... Read more...
A vintage radio
Less, but Better
Dieter Rams: ten principles, a shelf of quiet objects, and half a century of everyone else catching up. What restraint looks like when it ships. Read more...
A wave breaking on the shore in black and white
Good at a Hundred and Ten
The man behind the most famous wave on earth swore he would only become truly good at 110. Mastery as a lifelong schedule, against the overnight-success timeline. Read more...
A portrait in traditional East Nusa Tenggara woven attire
Cloth Worth a Life Savings
In Sumba the grandmothers still dye with roots while the collectors circle. What happens when a sacred cloth gets a market price. Read more...
Hands working batik by hand
The Dye Farmers
Taste · The Hands · No. 01. The most modern designers in Indonesia are the ones who went backward: to the village, the indigo vat, and the canting pen. Read more...