Carl Auböck Aorta Vase, Skultuna Open Sesame Bottle Opener Skultuna Hare Bracelet Windmuehlenmesser Parmoulin Cheese Knife Kaymet Tray, Sola Cube and Banshu Hamono snips Skultuna Vases and Candlestick Merola Gloves and Carl Auböck Paperweight Keramische Werkstatt Margarethenhöhe Plates, Hornvarenfabrik Spoon and Vogelglas Radiometer Carl Auböck Bookends

One of the highlights of our trip to Japan was our visit to the Katsura Imperial Villa Gardens, Kyoto. Not being the organised sorts we got a very early train to stand in a queue for tickets later in the day. But we were rewarded with one of the great gardens of the world where the pine trees have names and even the pebbles in the stream are apparently aesthetically...

  Inis Meáin is a tiny and remote island thirty miles off the Western Coast of Ireland, a slab of rock with just 200 inhabitants. It is the middlemost of the Aran Islands and home to the Inis Meáin Knitting Company, founded in 1976 by Tarlach de Blácam and his wife Áine Ní Chonghaile, an island native. Drawing on tradition, where for centuries the local fishermen’s clothing was designed, handknitted and woven by the islanders, the couple started out with a small factory and just six...