The Weaver / INVESTIGATION
Seven Metres. No Signature.
The extraordinary lives of an Iranian carpet—and the names missing from its history.
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1001 / EDITION 01A MAGAZINE OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS
Art is not
the decoration.
It is the story.
Images. Objects. Ideas. People who make worlds, and the work that survives them.
ENTER THE JOURNAL34 WORKS TO EXAMINE18 EDITORIAL PIECESSEVEN CREATIVE WORLDS
FROM THE KHAMSA OF AMIR KHUSRAU DIHLAVILAILA VISITING MAJNUN IN THE DESERTALA AL-DIN MUHAMMAD · HERAT · 1520–25
THE FRONT OF THE BOOK / 001Look, then
ALL 18 STORIES Look, then
look again.
The Image Maker / OBJECT DISPATCH
The Bat with a Face
Bhawani Das painted a fruit bat without shrinking its strangeness.
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The World Builder / WORKPLACE REPORT
The Workshop Has No Hero
A Persian manuscript painting shifts attention from a finished object to the people making it.
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It is an invitation to encounter something you didn't know you needed to see.
THE EDITORIAL UNIVERSESeven completely
Seven completely
different worlds.
No fixed template. No single discipline. The work determines its own form.
1 EDITORIAL PIECE
The Image Maker
The eye invents as much as it records.
5 EDITORIAL PIECES
The Object Maker
The intelligence of things.
4 EDITORIAL PIECES
The Weaver
Time, labour and pattern made visible.
1 EDITORIAL PIECE
The Wordsmith
The story travels further than the page.
1 EDITORIAL PIECE
The Sound Maker
What remains when the sound is gone?
3 EDITORIAL PIECES
The Performer
Bodies carry the work.
3 EDITORIAL PIECES
The World Builder
A world begins as a proposition.
FROM THE IMAGE MAKER / SHORT DISPATCHThe Bat
The Bat
with a Face.
Bhawani Das made a remarkable animal impossible to dismiss.
READ THE DISPATCHTHE READING TABLENot every story
Not every story
needs an essay.
A one-minute object, a visual argument, a material history. Different subjects deserve different amounts of space.
The Object Maker / ONE MINUTE
The Donkey Inside the Star
Thirteenth-century Kashan pottery makes an argument for looking twice.
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The Performer / QUICK TAKE
The Lion Dance Is Silent
A performance held in colour, gesture and the silence of paper.
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The Sound Maker / SOUND / OBJECT
The Stone That Made Sound
A Mexican musical instrument, centuries old, whose sound is absent from the archive.
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The World Builder / SKY ATLAS
A World Built Around the Sky
Dürer mapped the southern heavens on paper in 1515.
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The Performer / PERFORMANCE NOTE
A Beach Is a Stage
Torii Kiyonaga shows how a performance can reorganise a landscape.
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The Object Maker / TIMEPIECE
How to Slow Time
A brass sundial asks whether measurement has to feel mechanical.
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THE LOOKING ROOM / AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCEPut two works
Put two works
in conversation.
One carpet. One print. One completely different way of seeing. Choose the pairing yourself.
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SELECTED FROM THE OBJECT ARCHIVEA cabinet of
EXPLORE ALL 34 WORKS A cabinet of
extraordinary things.
The Object Maker · Ecuador / Río Napo
Vessel in the Form of a Seated Man
Maker unknown · 6th–13th century
FROM THE FUTURE SHOPMade to
Made to
be kept.
The first publication, print folios and objects for people who care about art beyond the screen. Our shop is in product development; we won't sell something before it's ready.
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LIBERTY OF ART.ART OF LIBERTY.