The Journal
Notes writtenbetween commissions.
Long-form pieces on light, material and craft. We publish rarely and only when there is something worth saying.
- Essays
- 8
- Subjects
- 8
- Since
- 2019
7 essays
Craftsmanship
In Praise of the Unfinished Edge
At Palazzo Verde we were offered the chance to complete a damaged sixteenth-century fresco. We declined, and the room is better for it.
27 January 20266 min
Materials
Forty-One Blocks
There is no second attempt with a book-matched wall. A note from four days in Friuli, and the mathematics of cutting stone only once.
11 November 20255 min
Studio Stories
The Eleven-Metre Table
A Tuscan farmhouse needed to hold fourteen people in August and two in November. The answer was a single piece of furniture.
2 September 20256 min
Travel
Notes From a Monsoon
Two thousand millimetres of rain fall on Alibaug between June and September. Most houses hide from it. We built one that waits for it.
19 July 20258 min
Interiors
Against the Feature Wall
The feature wall is the most reliable indicator that a room was decorated rather than designed. A short argument against it.
6 May 20254 min
Materials
The Drawer of Rejected Colours
Every project produces a colour we cannot find again. We started keeping them. After eleven years, there were enough to weave.
24 February 20255 min
Studio Stories
What a Client Actually Buys
Clients rarely ask what they are paying for. They should. An honest account of where a design fee actually goes.
9 December 20246 min
The correspondence
Four letters a year,and nothing else.
Material studies, project reveals and notes from the atelier. We have never sent a promotional email and do not intend to start.
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- India
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