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Home Decor
Paint it white and it will feel larger is the first advice anyone gives about a small room, and it is usually wrong. A pale room announces its own boundary; depth of colour hides it. Under twelve square metres, where the light sits decides more than what covers the walls.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
9 mins
Fashion
A winter coat is the most heavily engineered garment in most wardrobes and the one most often bought on impulse. The difference between fifteen winters and two is not the label, and it tracks price only loosely. It sits in cloth weight, in how the chest is built, and in the allowances left at the seams.
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Camille Osei
Duration
9 mins
Fashion
A Goodyear welted shoe can be taken apart and rebuilt five or six times. A cemented shoe cannot be rebuilt at all, because the upper is glued directly to the sole it is standing on. The difference is visible from a chair in the shop, and it decides everything that happens afterwards.
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Marek Sandoval
Duration
10 mins
Beauty
Grooming divides into what keeps a body in working order and what is done to be seen. The two are sold with the same language and measured against the same vague promise, and confusing them is how a routine becomes an obligation.
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Naomi Bregman
Duration
8 mins
Home Decor
Unlacquered brass, oiled timber, lime plaster, wool, leather and stone all change under use rather than simply degrading. Each also passes through a period, usually between month three and year two, when the change looks like a mistake. A note on what they do over a decade and what they cost up front.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
9 mins
Beauty
There is no universal red. Blue based and orange based reds do entirely different work against teeth and skin, and formula shifts the apparent shade as far as pigment does. The argument is settled in about a minute, at a window, without a mirror light.
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Naomi Bregman
Duration
6 mins