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 our head coppersmith.
Third-generation coppersmith and principal of the foundry, 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 by the founder, kept burning through two wars, one roof collapse, and one very hard winter. A short history of a fire that has never been allowed to go out.
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.