Hole & Corner # 11

For this issue, we have taken time to take stock and reflect, to weigh things up… and maybe just admire some nice shiny stuff too.

In an exclusive conversation, jewellery makers, designers and experts Duffy, Fernando Jorge, Beanie Major and Darren Sherwood discuss the challenges that social media and over saturation pose for their industry. We visit Lasvit in Bohemia and Riedel in Bavaria to see how some of the world’s best glassmakers defy physics, chemistry and received wisdom in their quest for perfection – fuelled by the occasional weak beer. We speak to gilder, ideas man and raconteur Colin Mullins, who left school at 14 without being able to read or write and now does prestigious work for the Queen – and even got to drank Captain Cook’s wine. Meanwhile, Emma Peascod talks us through her unique, mirrored surfaces, inspired by the landscape of Cumbria, Australia and Japan.