Curator’s Choice Each year we approach one of the many great silver collections in the UK and ask its curator to highlight a piece of their choice that they consider...
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“Other people like looking in clothes shops, I like looking in ironmongers’!” - Jean Scott-Moncrieff Contemporary jeweller and designer Jean Scott-Moncrieff warns me that she can be an unusual holiday...
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In their secluded workshop, hidden in the beautiful mountains of the Belgian Ardennes, father and son team Rob and Jaap Thalen, otherwise known as Thalen & Thalen, specialise in making...
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Alexandra Raphael’s recent “Lace” plique-á-jour bowl, bought by the V&A Museum at Collect 2019, is the perfect example of her jaw-dropping dedication to technical excellence. The conversation oscillates between the...
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“Now I either engrave or carve nearly everything I make, to the point that I sometimes make a piece just to have something on which to do some engraving.” -...
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Argex understands that part of today’s fascination with craft skills is born out of the transformation of raw materials into beautiful finished objects. Behind every wooden chair and every ceramic...
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The Millennium Gallery is home to the Sykes Gallery Metalwork Collection displays, a dazzling showcase for the city’s internationally important collection of metalwork. Sheffield is globally renowned for its association...
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In 2018 Sheffield-based silversmith Charlotte Tollyfield was chosen by Sheffield Hallam University to produce the 12th new design for the winners’ centre. If you have ever found yourself in the...
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Bryony Knox spent a month filming for a new BBC Arts series where six makers were taken back in time to live and work as Victorian artists. “I’m a real...
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The origins of the term ‘Little Mester’ are uncertain, but it is used to refer to a particular kind of craftsman in the town of Sheffield and the surrounding area....
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