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...This is really the heart of the company, these people," says Andrea. "Without them, without their expertise and the soul they put into this craftsmanship, we would not have a product." Indeed, most Tod's shoes require 120 different stages of assemblage, and each pair is made by hand and cut from a single hide so that the shoe's grain is consistent. The shoemaking process begins inside the patternmaking room?which Andrea refers to as the intelligence center?where a dozen engineers hunch over computer screens, carefully devising the patterns for each shoe?some entail as many...
...threat of China's increasing production power looms over the European luxury-goods business, two Italian industrialists and one designer explain why the unique craftsmanship characterizing their brands may just be the best excuse to pay higher labor costs and keep their business close to home
...opposed to a lot of art that plays seriously with ideas, Jungen's masks, some of which have long extensions of human hair, speak to the eye and not just the brain. That's another way of saying they are weirdly beautiful. In a world of factory-fabricated artworks, craftsmanship long ago ceased to be an end in itself for most artists, including Jungen. All the same, in his meticulous rubber taxidermy--all that filleting and restitching of the shoes--it's not hard to find an equivalent, and not just an ironic one, to the skilled handwork of First...
...light. It looks as if some silver-fingered Midas brushed against a bamboo trellis covered in climbing flowers. ?In 200 years,? he says, ?you will see this on the block at Sotheby's.? He is not speaking of the design but of the exquisite craftsmanship. One of the great luxuries of working in Bali is the ability to draw from a tradition of jewelry making that goes back thousands of years?and the ability to lure Europe's greatest designers with the promise of working in paradise. Hardy's designers number in the eighties, something unheard...
...what I love about how we make our jewelry,? says Cynthia Hardy. ?You have these wonderful craftspeople descended from artisans who worked for the kings of Bali hundreds of years ago sitting down with ceramic polymer from Liechtenstein. It's 21st century technology combined with the craftsmanship and talents of the 19th century...