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602, 2025

Edith Wharton: At home in the South of France

By |Feb 6, 2025|Arts + Culture, Literature & Theatre|0 Comments

Edith Wharton: internationally famous writer, and first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize who spoke four languages and was both a friend and confidante to prominent intellectuals including Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, and André Gide?

1501, 2025

Interview: Paris transformations — Materially Speaking with Sarah Monk

By |Jan 15, 2025|Arts + Culture, Architecture & Design|0 Comments

Podcast: This spring Mike Axinn and I went to Paris to see how artisans are able to practice their craft in a vibrant, urban setting. We wanted to discover more about the relevance of traditional skills in a world of 21st-century technologies.

2211, 2024

Interview: Michael Francis Cartwright, All materials are equal—Materially Speaking with Sarah Monk

By |Nov 22, 2024|Architecture & Design, Arts + Culture|0 Comments

Michael Cartwright likes drawing, painting, printmaking, working with beautiful red hardwoods and carving marble. He also works with found objects and discarded items, ‘old toys, bits of stick, anything’, and takes them to the local art foundry to get them cast in bronze. Once, he ripped the back off an old truck and used the metal to make a sculpture.

1610, 2024

Interview: Emmanuel Fillion, The art of cutting stone — Speaking Materially with Sarah Monk

By |Oct 16, 2024|Arts + Culture, Architecture & Design|0 Comments

Emmanuel Fillion: Born in Soissons, France, he went to trade school at the age of 16 to learn how to renovate historical monuments by hand, specialising in granite.

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