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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      FT SeriesCity Living Special
      The British Ceramics Biennial — not just about pots

      The festival is pushing boundaries and re-energising the traditional ceramics centre of Stoke-on-Trent

      A ceramic-tiled car parked outdoors
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Interiors
      Venice Glass Week seeks to reforge Murano’s creativity

      The city’s sixth week-long celebration of the art form looks back to past masters and forward to the medium’s future

      Four glass works on a table, two with long, curved necks
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Interiors
      The artisans who embrace the beauty of decay

      Meet the creatives who let natural processes of ageing and distress take over as the driving force

      Two rounded jars display deep rust-like stains on one side of their surfaces
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      House & Home
      Contemporary embroidery with surprising conceptual heft

      In 1770 the Royal Academy banned ‘needlework’ from its exhibitions — today museums and galleries show stitched works on issues from the political to the cosmic

      Woman doing embroidery work in her studio
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      House & Home
      The heritage heroes trying to save traditional crafts

      Some 150 disciplines in the UK are on an endangered ‘red list’

      Craftspeople and their products
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Watches & Jewellery
      Gouache holds its own in the face of digital rivals

      Demand is growing for the traditional illustration technique as jewellers and their clients place value on its bespoke look

    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: Jewellery
      The secret lives of jewellers’ workbenches

      Five jewellers on their workspaces and how these spur their creativity

      A pair of hands working on a skull-shaped piece of jewel
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: Jewellery
      Kukas: ‘I was born looking at shapes’

      The design doyenne on how her bold sculptural jewellery springs from her experiments with geometric form

      Maria da Conceição de Moura Borges, known as Kukas
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      House & Home
      Inside a restoration: 13 tapestries, 72 metres and 24 years

      Meet the tireless conservators behind the 16th-century pieces owned by the Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick

      A huge tapestry is worked on by textile conservators
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      ‘Glass is jazz’: finding artistic freedom behind the Iron Curtain

      An exhibition introduces six Czech pioneers who embraced glassmaking as a fine art and ‘the only medium possible under communism’

      One of the displays at Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice
    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      House & Home
      The designers conjuring 21st-century creations in a 12th-century castle

      Schloss Hollenegg, in Austria, is an incubator for experiment with its programme of residencies and exhibitions

      Alice Stori Liechtenstein, seated
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Interiors
      Movers and makers: the highlights of London Craft Week

      The show explores regal rites, endangered crafts and new creations

      Weaver He Xiumei of Shanghai-based organisation Naze Naze
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      House & Home
      Coronation ceramics: are they iconic — or ironic?

      Ahead of the crowning of King Charles III, we explore the history of commemorative royal china

      montage of commemorative royal china
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      House & Home
      The gloopy, the bulky and the ugly — and you thought ceramics were delicate?

      Meet the artisans whose work explores the beauty in imperfection

      ceramicist painting his work
    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      House & Home
      Vessels of grief, a potter’s response to the pandemic

      Julian Stair’s clay jars address bereavement in the era of Covid

      Julian Stair with monumental figural jars in progress
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Interiors
      Only Collect: a craft fair infused with a sense of place and identity

      From India to Nigeria, makers at the London event were inspired by indigenous materials and traditions

      contemporary craft and design pieces on display ina room
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Interiors
      Phantom threads: heritage linens for the 21st century

      Hand-stitched, customised textiles are being championed in updated designs

      breakfast table covered by a linen cloth
    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      House & Home
      Knives out: Sheffield’s craft steel revival

      After decades of decline, the UK city’s famous industry is being revitalised by young artisans

      scissors designed like a bird
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Interiors
      Modern alchemists: the furniture makers to watch in 2023

      A new spirit of experimentation has taken hold among designers

      Gustavo Quintana-Kennedy and his wife Estefania de Ros of Agnes Studio, based in Guatemala, with their Alvar table made of volcanic stone
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Interiors
      Rachel Scott’s house full of woven wonders

      Her rugs, carpets and cushions were made for a domestic space but are now the subject of a Hauser & Wirth exhibition

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      House & Home
      The hand tools that built the world

      In an extract from his new book, Dominic Chinea of TV’s ‘The Repair Shop’ delights in the craftsmanship of the past

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      HTSI
      A furniture store in Lima supporting craft collectives

      Don Bosco showcases exquisite furniture, furnishings and sculptures made by artisans in the Andes – and all profits go to them 

      Architect Fabio Tienforti (left) and artisan Pablo Merchán of Don Bosco
    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Interiors
      The masters of Hida: 1,300 years of woodcraft

      An exhibition in London celebrates the skills of carpenters from this forested region of Japan

      wood furniture; ‘Carpenter’s Line’ exhibition at Japan House London
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Interiors
      Radical carpenters: ‘The timber just pops’

      From LA to Bosnia and Herzegovina, woodworkers are subverting techniques and classic furniture forms

      Benni Allan and his oak Low Collection
    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      House & Home
      Edmund de Waal’s plate collection for Wedgwood and the V&A

      The writer and ceramicist celebrates the history of porcelain with four limited-edition pieces

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