Atlas
A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
Eight stops through the long argument between handwork and industry: a wheel older than writing, the exhibition that crowned the machine, the movements that answered it, and the fairground where hand and machine finally...
8 stops
Ordinary domestic life, kept and cultivated at home, has repeatedly organized itself into real movements and institutions: a reaction against Victorian bedding schemes became the cottage garden style, wartime food...
8 stops
A century and a half of hand work answering the machine: the Arts and Crafts revolt against factory production, Japan's parallel mingei philosophy, the studio pottery and studio craft movements it fed, and the...
12 stops
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