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

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September/October 220

Issue No. 220
September/October

Fiona Rattray talks to Julia Lohmann, a designer exploring our contradictory relationship with nature using unexpected materials from cow stomachs to seaweed. Ferran AdriĆ , head chef of the legendary elBulli, talks to Teleri Lloyd-Jones about food, art and craft. After her Arctic expedition, book-binder Tracey Rowledge tells Veronica Simpson about her new outlook on her practice, whilst Emma Crichton-Miller chronicles our cultural impulses to collect.