Notes from
the workshop,
and the road.
The Journal.
Every so often we set down a few things about copper, about baths,
and about the people we make them for. Here they are.
Four short pieces.
How copper ages.
Copper does not, in the strict sense, corrode — it patinates. It rearranges its own surface, slowly, in response to air, water, salt, and hand. Here is what happens in year one, year ten, and year fifty.
In conversation with Michael Barrow.
Third-generation coppersmith, principal at Heritage Hardware since 1998, custodian of the ledger. On what he has changed — and, more usefully, what he has refused to change.
The forge that never went out.
Lit in October 1897, kept burning through two wars, one roof collapse, and (very nearly) the winter of 1963. A short history of a fire that has been in the same stone hearth for a hundred and twenty-eight winters.
Choosing between polished and antique.
They are, in the strict chemistry, the same metal. In the room, though, they are almost opposite decisions. A short field-guide for the client trying to choose.
Every piece we publish is short, unhurried,
and printed in a font we quite like.