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From the M&T Daily Dispatch 

From the M&T Daily Dispatch 

Another installment in the Nature and Art of Workmanship series. This time Joshua and Mike discuss the fifth chapter which shows the limits of design. Much of the success is left to the workman. SHOW NOTES  Order your copy of the book here: The Nature and Art of Workmanship Joshua Klein’s article in Issue Seven: ”A Fresh & Unexpected Beauty: Understanding David Pye’s ‘Workmanship of Risk’”

From the M&T Daily Dispatch 

From the M&T Daily Dispatch 

Like so many Windsors, our chair is an anonymous work – a puzzle that spans nearly 250 years and perhaps two states. Thankfully, it has avoided catastrophe over the centuries and remains intact, untouched black paint and all, to serve as something as transcendent as it is enigmatic. There is beauty in that mystery – something captivating in its design and its origin. In late 2018, this chair was on the market for $30,000. While that might seem like an extraordinary sum – and it is – it remains only a fraction of the value of a similarly uncommon Queen Anne or Chippendale side chair from the same era. In many ways, “country furniture,” like our Windsor, is a bargain,...

From the M&T Daily Dispatch 

From the M&T Daily Dispatch 

Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, for your viewing pleasure, here is the moment you’ve been waiting for (drum roll please): the release of the cover of Issue Fourteen! Over the past two weeks, we’ve slowly unveiled the Table of Contents for this issue as a kind of teaser of what’s to come. Since Issue One, this has been our thing. It may seem a funny practice in the magazine world, where many publications recycle content on an 18-month cycle, but we’re not in the business of filling out page space with throwaway articles. Everything here is new, and exciting, and (we think) timeless. That’s why our back issues are as relevant now as when they were first published...

From the M&T Daily Dispatch