Atelier

Lookbooks

The archive

Everything we have made, laid out in order, once a year.

Process

Repairs

Nine garments sent back to be mended rather than replaced, photographed before and after.

Lookbooks

Autumn campaign

Shot on the last warm weekend of the year, entirely in daylight, entirely outdoors.

Process

Wool, before it is cloth

One fleece, from a farm in the Cotswolds to the finished coat, photographed at every stage it changed hands.

Process

The cutting table

A day with the pattern cutter who has made every block we sell since 2019.

Lookbooks

Spring lookbook

Sixteen pieces photographed over two mornings in an empty flat, in daylight, with nothing steamed.

Bench

The parts shop

Every component we will sell you separately, and what each one costs — the page most manufacturers do not have.

Lab

Sourcing cells that will still exist

Choosing a battery for a product means choosing a part that has to be buyable in 2034.

Bench

Eight years of firmware

What a support commitment costs to keep, written out, because most of them are quietly abandoned in year three.

Bench

The repair bench

Everything sent back for repair in a year, sorted by what actually failed.

Lab

Measuring every unit

The rig that measures each headphone before it is boxed, and why a reference sample is not good enough.

Lab

Project Valkyrie

Two years spent designing a keyboard controller board that anybody can reflash, and publishing every revision that failed.

Atelier

The Empress commission

Fourteen months from an eleven-carat emerald bought at auction to a necklace built around it.

Atelier

Ninety hours of anglage

What hand-finishing a skeleton movement involves, hour by hour, and why a machine cannot do it.

Atelier

The rolling mill that outlived three owners

A machine from 1911, still in daily use, and why the workshop was built around it rather than the other way round.