The quiet architecture of light
How a handful of architects learned to build with daylight instead of against it.
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Culture
Learning patience at the potter's wheel
Two hundred bowls, one teacher and the hardest thing I have ever tried to learn with my hands.
Travel
A slow week on the lake
A cabin, a rowing boat, a shelf of paperbacks and one rule: no plans at all.
Culture
Rain, neon and the last trains home
A month of missing the last train on purpose, and the city that appears after midnight.
Ideas
In praise of the independent bookshop
The shop on my street has been closing down for eleven years. Here is why it never does.
Ideas
How I write: mornings, coffee and paper
No secret, no trick: one protected hour, a notebook and a sentence left unfinished.
Design
The shape of the wind
A line of leaning trees in the Spanish desert, and what they teach about good design.
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One thoughtful essay every Sunday morning, plus the best things we read this week. Free, and easy to leave.
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