Journal

By Ines Keane Not just a stable. The Neapolitan nativity scene, the presepe, grows into a market, a tavern and […]

By Porter Lang One side is longer. That is the first design fact about a Venetian gondola, and it is

By Rafe Calder A lake gives water. That is the plain reason the sources give for silk at Como, and

By Porter Lang Leather is skin, and tanning is what keeps it from rotting. There is more than one way

By Rafe Calder The rind is the label. It is stamped, dotted and branded, and each mark means something. Start

By Rafe Calder The floor of one Florentine chapel was finished in 1962, more than three and a half centuries

By Isla Quinn Antonio Stradivari made more than 1,100 instruments, according to Wikipedia, and about 650 survive. Almost everything after

By Ines Keane There is no loom, no bobbins, nothing mechanical between the thread and the hand holding the needle.

By Isla Quinn Stand below the Apuan Alps and the slopes look scarred. Pale cuts in the rock where marble