Issue No. 208
September/October 2007
Upfront: our regular round-up from the world of crafts. Tanya Harrod goes to the puppet show, Liberty sheds light on a china legend, paper gets a good showing in Manchester and contemporary glass comes
to Devon
Inside this issue
Regulars
Talent Spot
Young blacksmith Ambrose Burn knows how to upset a piece of metal. Claire Wrathall reports
In Conversation
The joint winners of this year’s Jerwood Prize have a thing or two to say about jewellery. Emma Crichton Miller asks all the right questions
Collecting
Automatic love: Karoline Newman can’t resist the lure of a few moving parts
Inspiration
Choreography is a craft too. South Bank artist-in-residence Rafael Bonachela explainsFeatures
Sugar and spice
Linda Florence doesn’t like things to stay as they are. Marcus Field on a textile designer with a sense of mischief
News from somewhere
Veronica Horwell travels to Chipping Campden to survey the legacy of Ashbee’s dream gone awry
A better kind of value
It’s luxury, but not as you know it. Marcus Fairs finds the designers who make beauty from the base
I know a man who does…
You don’t really think Damien stuffs his own sharks, do you? Charles Darwent meets the man who makes London’s art real
Reviews
The British Museum’s Masters of Japanese craft, what Feminism looked like, America’s big new crafts museum and more
