As solid, wistful fans of the Hermés brand and their unwavering dedication to craft and quality, we remain in mourning at having missed the Seattle appearance of Hermés Festival des Métiers. So close! Here, Hermés exports their master craftsmen and workshop experience into the public space. These photos and video make us feel the smallest bit better.
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Italian ceramicist Nadia Pignatone knows her way around the clay. The simplicity of her hand thrown pieces is exactly the sort that we loves.
Amazing/beautiful/inspirational installation work from Los Angeles design and fabrication collaborative Ball Nogues Studio. Let us all pick up tools and get to making!
“I was brought up surrounded by the smell of oil and steel and the sound of machinery.” – Tokyo-born Shinya Kimura, founder of Zero Engineering and now California-based Chabott Engineering uses the motorcycle as his medium of choice.
Relaxer Natalie Ramsland of Sweetpea Bicycles featured in Patagonia’s summer catalog. Two brands that taste great together.
Anish Kapoor’s Memory at the Guggenheim. 24 tons of core ten steel revealed only in fragments from vantages within the gallery. Extraordinary.
Art construction from Megan Pahmier. Better than beautiful; perfect. Find further perfection of the simple at Kindling, a collaboration with her brother, also a maker.
The sophisticated poetry of traditionally-trained potter Akio Nukaga. “His pieces are so humane — they embody his free spirit, humility and incredibly kind soul. I use one of Akio’s teapots almost every morning — it truly enhances my experience of having tea and honestly starts my day in a nicer way.” – Adam Silverman, Heath Ceramics. See Nukaga’s special one of a kind works shown in September at Heath.
Deep in the heart of the Amercian Return to Craft are hand tools and the leatherworker. MAKR began as a one-man workshop sewing up small goods with a nice touch, and is evolving into an authentic cottage industry of perfectly-conceived small-batch carry goods. These are things you want to touch. And handle. And live with, for a very long time. We hope that one day there will be a maximalist version of the Minimal which will accommodate the change that women do not like to carry in pocket.
