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Tech4 min read
Bang & Olufsen: A Century of Sound as Furniture
A Danish radio maker from a small town in Jutland turned stereo gear into objects that museums collect. The story runs through two designers.
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Design5 min read
Pierre Jeanneret's Chandigarh Chairs and the Fakes Problem
Government office chairs from a planned Indian city became a luxury status object. Then came the scrap auctions, the reconstructions, the replicas and the police.
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Travel4 min read
Kyoto Craft Guide: Tea Caddies, Knives and Canvas Bags
A knife shop that started as a swordsmith in 1560, a tea caddy taking more than 130 steps. Kyoto still makes things the slow way.
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Style4 min read
The Varsity Jacket Began With One Letter H
In 1865 Harvard's baseball team stitched an H on its shirts. The letter turned into a reward, then a sweater, then the most borrowed jacket in America.
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Sneakers4 min read
Salomon XT-6 and How an Ultra Shoe Ended Up in Paris
The XT-6 was built for runners racing a hundred miles through mountains. Then someone at Salomon found a box of them in the archive and changed the colors.
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Watches4 min read
Swatch and the Quartz Crisis: How Plastic Saved the Swiss Watch
Between 1970 and 1984 the Swiss watch industry lost about 60,000 jobs. The fix was a 51-part plastic watch launched in Zurich in 1983.
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Grooming4 min read
The Straight Razor Is Back, and It Still Bites
Sheffield invented it, Gillette nearly killed it, and a Bond film brought it back. The cutthroat razor rewards men with patience.
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Culture3 min read
Fear of God and Jerry Lorenzo, the Long T-Shirt That Built a Label
A ballplayer's son with an MBA and no fashion training made extra-long tees, caught Kanye West's eye and taught American luxury to relax.
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Tech4 min read
Technics SL-1200: The Turntable That Built DJ Culture
Matsushita built a sturdy direct-drive turntable for home listeners. DJs took it into clubs, wore it out for decades and could not kill it.
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Design4 min read
Tadao Ando, the Boxer Who Taught Concrete to Be Quiet
No architecture degree, a short career in the ring and a lifetime of poured concrete. How Tadao Ando went from a tiny Osaka house to Paris, Malibu and Naoshima.
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