He placed the block into the heated forge and waited about 35 minutes, removing the block when it was molten. “Then we fold it and cut it,” he said. “Fold it over and forge weld it back together again.” When Mr. Brennan decided it was finished, he said, “It’s €2,500, just for that piece of…
As part of the preparations for her first solo exhibition, held this past summer at the NOW Gallery in South London, Simone Brewster designed “Crown,” a set of wooden combs inspired by traditional African hairstyles. But since the multidisciplinary artist and designer already was creating jewelry and paintings for the selling show, designing its layout…
The first time Althea Cajero saw someone pull a piece of cast silver out of a cuttlefish mold, revealing a pattern of wavy lines in the metal, she was hooked. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do,” she said. Now, nearly 20 years later, she still uses cuttlebone — the chalky internal shell of…
A bride, decked in wedding finery, is traditionally the last model to appear during a live fashion show. But at Vin + Omi, the finale of its spring 2024 show in September during London Fashion Week, was a floor-length, long-sleeve column gown made from the giant butterbur plants grown on the Sandringham estate of King…
Window coverings are nice to have for privacy, but do they really matter that much when you’re furnishing a room? Jake Arnold, an interior designer in Los Angeles, offers an unequivocal answer: Yes! Drapery, he said, is “one of the most important parts of an interior’s layers.” A great pair of curtains, he added, is…
Comfort Products Ms. Svartstein-Bourjade said the global candle market was valued at more than $10 billion in annual sales, with the United States as the largest segment, accounting for more than a third of all sales. She said that many fashion and perfume companies, including Dior, Frédéric Malle, Aqua Di Parma and Maison Margiela, had…
Although Mr. Lane won’t disclose his prices or the annual revenue of his wholly owned company, he said that some of the larger installations cost more than $1 million. Mr. Lane said that as a child, he had no plans to be a professional artist. He grew up in Oak Park, Ill., near Chicago; his…
On Sept. 26, 2021, Colin Ernest Barkell spotted Kayla Dianne Pecchioni stroking her hairless kitten at a screening of the Tony Awards. He was instantly attracted. Especially to the cat. In the lounge of the Chicago apartment building where theater fans had gathered for the show, “I was like, ‘I need to see this guy’,”…
A prompt on the Hinge dating app asks for two truths and a lie. I could say: I was in a cult as a teenager. I got engaged after only two months of dating. I had a stroke at 44, after ending my 19-year marriage. The only catch? All three are true. I joined a…
Life for Mr. Potenzano had become “a state of isolation,” he said. “When it lasted long enough, I thought of other people who were lonely. And guess who came to mind?” By 2022, he had convinced himself to ask Ms. Elkind for a date. That fall at a christening for a new great-great niece, he…