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Field Notes

The Journal

Letters from the workshops and ateliers we keep.

On the patience of cedar

Kyoto · Workshop

On the patience of cedar

A morning with the Yamashita family, who have been turning rice paddles by hand since 1923.

The weight of a good knife

Loire · Smithy

The weight of a good knife

Why hand-forged steel asks more of the cook — and gives more back.

Light, captured

Murano · Glass

Light, captured

Three generations, one furnace, and a quiet refusal to scale.