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A Different Kind of Bloom
What happens when broken glass is made to bloom? Exploring Maarten Vrolijk's Sakura works.


The Rest of the Price
The Row’s $620 rubber slide comes with a complete description. The price is the only detail it cannot explain.


Kurosawa, Pokémon and What Flew Between Them
Between Kurosawa and Pokémon was a paint made to survive flight. It carried a director’s colours, a product name and a schoolboy’s drawing.


The Provenance of a Resemblance
A new Hermès enamel bracelet looks unexpectedly familiar. The reason leads back to Vienna.


What on the Plate Belongs to You?
Saygın Sesli on taste memory and what a chef can add to a recipe that existed before him.


Follow: What the Button Decides Now
Magelier looks at how Follow became part of another distribution decision.


How Not to Repeat an Image
George Stadnik on Lumia, Thomas Wilfred, the Photon Guitar and six decades of making images with light, time and variation.


A Bow to the Original
A face can hide the rest of a portrait. Volker Hermes hides the face instead.


The Magazine You Don’t Throw Away
Print circulation fell. The magazine survived. Its job changed.


Everyone Knows Their Place
Doğu Özgün talks about the roles we inherit and what happens when someone leaves the board.


Luxury Wants Whimsy Now?
If perfection is no longer scarce, what does luxury make scarce instead?


The Em Dash
We can spot the signs. But what do they tell us?


The Medium Forgot the Message
Noah Becker on algorithms, visibility, taste and why popularity is a poor substitute for judgment.


The Image Arrived First
What changes when we see an artwork’s image long before we encounter the work itself?


Six Designers, One Name
A name made six designers easier to see. It also made their differences harder to separate.


No Proof, No Show
Copenhagen Fashion Week is turning sustainability from promise into proof.


Larger Than Us
Seven familiar figures return at the wrong scale, changing how we read what is before us.


Why Did the Serpent Need a Woman’s Face?
If the serpent was already a powerful symbol, why was it given a human face at all?


Margins of Thought
These notebooks ask what becomes visible when attention stays a little longer.


The Ghost Is Always Me
Je M’appelle Macid on the distance between artist and figure and the power of darker fragility.
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