CONTENTSIssue 20 | RefocusCo10.
Assemble
Our section presenting emerging talents and ideas in creativity, sustainability, innovation and craftsmanship, from Helle Mardahl's glorious glassware and Seedlip's magicak mushroom packaging to the Birch Community's hollistic hotel, Above Below's wild swimming RuckRaft and India's new seat of excellence. The future starts here...

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Field Trip: Take a Seat
The village skill of rush-seated chair making is alive – and despite lockdown and thanks to two talented young apprentices and an entrepreneur with a passion for detail – thriving in a newly created crafts work space at Marchmont House in Scotland

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View Point: Satire to Admire
Multi-media artist Lucy Bryant has found inspiration in the dark corners of 2020. From Selfish Steve the panic buyer to The Masked Lady, Bruyant's social commentary on the best and worst aspects of British society is a joy to behold.

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Selects
From expanding our horizons, and making new materials, to changing lives, we meet seven movers and makers leading the way 

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Old-Lands
Guided by an ethos of 'slow to change and careful of consequence', an ancient Welsh faming estate is re-imagining itself as a species-rich landscape. Old-Lands takes you on a treasure trail of our native wonders – beautiful moths, wildflowers and insects...
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Punkt.
In a backlash to the incessant wave of emails, texts and Instagram posts, Punkt, is offering a way of refocusing our lives, with products that do what it says on the tin – an alarm clock that wakes you up, and a phone that makes phone calls. Radical...

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Ally Capellino
Alison Lloyd has created a bag brand that's celebrating 40 years in the fickle fashion industry, and has a fan base of style-savvy devotees from cyclists to architects. Not bad for someone who 'never had a plan'

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Holmen Lofoten
For the ultimate escape, head to Norway's Holmen Lofoten, where you can stay in a fisherman's hut, hone your culinary skills, and feed your soul. Welcome to paradise at the edge of the world...

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Sleep
In these troubled times, sleep has been elusive for many of us. Yulia Mahr and Max Ritcher's collaborative works, Sleep, follows the epic eight-hour performances of Richter's composition of the same name, a restorative lullaby for our times...

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Savoir Beds
It takes 120 hours and 115 years of experience to handmake a Savoir bed – a process so long and painstaking that even the fabric needs to have a lie down...
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Rolex Mentors & Proteges
An openess to collaborate,finding focus in chaos, and learning that it's not about doing, it's about being; three creatives share the lessons they've learnt as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative

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Maison Michel

When Priscilla Royer joined the Parisian couture hat maker Maison Michel in 2015, she brought with her a respect for the traditional artisanal processes along with some new ideas to give them a little shake up along the way

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Paul Vanstone
Tackling  a 30-tonne block of marble with his bare hands doesn't faze Paul Vanstone. 'I do like that broader, bigger brushstroke,' says the sculptor, who makes his mark on onyx, alabaster and finest Carrara

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Fogo Island
'A remote island, far away from far away', Newfoundland's Fogo Island is a flat granite-scape where you are guaranteed to leave your comfort zone far behind...

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Notes

Refocussing our efforts – how small changes can have a big impact

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My hole-and-corner

Cabon Gold founder Craig Sams shares his secret place