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About Beauty. How Greek sculptors turned an idea of beauty into a working method| MPM

October 13, 2026

Every one of these solutions — the grid, the shifted weight, the numbered module, the stubborn cooperation of the material itself — was arrived at the way most real knowledge tends to be: not by de...

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The Geometry of Concentration: The Ristretto. A conversation with the designer of Maison Philippe Montagne, Paris.

September 16, 2026

That is a great deal of discipline compressed into an object you could close inside one hand. Which is, I suppose, exactly what a ristretto is supposed to be — the whole character of the coffee, co...

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About Beauty. Physical proportion, cosmic order, and inner virtue in the Hellenic idea of the beautiful.

September 15, 2026

About beauty. Sappho had already gone further, a century or two earlier, in a fragment that still unsettles the tidier theories: she writes that some call an army the most beautiful thing on earth,...

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About Beauty. Is beauty transcendental or immanent? The opinion of Plato and Aristotle | MPM

August 22, 2026

Aristotle's view lets the object stand entirely on its own, complete, needing no permission from anywhere else. Most working days, if I am honest, I find myself entirely on Aristotle's side of the ...

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The story behind the MPM Lungo. A conversation with the founder of Maison Philippe Montagne, Paris.

August 22, 2026

MPM Lungo. It still packs for a short trip. 

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ArtDeco without the pastiche. The Story Behind the Cappuccino Slim Briefcase. A conversation with the designer of Maison Philippe Montagne

August 16, 2026

So, the recipe for Art Deco without pastiche, in one answer ? Refuse the motifs, keep the grammar.

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The Story Behind the Cappuccino Slim Briefcase. A conversation with the founder of Maison Philippe Montagne, Paris.

August 15, 2026

A cappuccino, after the doppio. The coffee bar is becoming a design method. It always was one. Coffee is the true fuel of the travelling life, and each preparation has a temperament

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About Beauty. Proportion, symmetry, and the classical ideal — from Athens to the Italian Renaissance.

August 11, 2026

My own conviction, formed over years of drawing and making objects, is this. Proportion is the necessary foundation of beauty but not its sufficient cause

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