‘Velvet’ 2006 by  Mårten Medbo; Photograph: Mårten Medbo, 2006

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Issue No. 234
January/February

Celebrating its first anniversary, Studio Manifold is a collective of nine RCA graduates who have discovered that there is strength in numbers

In an extract from her new book ‘On Jewellery’, Liesbeth den Besten explains why all that glitters is not necessarily gold

Emma Love meets lighting designer Alex Randall whose work combines rawhide, hot air ballooning and Freddie Mercury

And as the shape of things, a two-year scheme celebrating the many facets of British identity, draws to a close, Emma Crichton Miller meets silversmith Chien-Wei Chang and assesses the project’s impact