The artisans designed and reinforced their wares to endure "the vicissitudes of hurricanes, floods, war and changes in fashion," the authors write.
He stood beside his steel, artisan-designed Land Shark bike with a leather saddle before entering West Drive the other day.
Albert and Victoria Roads now have pockets of cool hipsterdom: artisan coffees, design houses, art galleries.
Stockholm remains Sweden's creativity hub, with hundreds of big-name designers and smaller artisans running design shops, style houses and creative collectives.
In the short film above, "A Day in Hydra with Elena Votsi," the artisan, who designed the medal for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, discusses her own history and design inspiration for the rings, necklaces and earrings that she likens to objects, like "toys," that can be as fun alone as they are on the body.
The Wiener Werkstätte artisan collective designed the cards as holiday and birthday greetings, ads for exhibitions and theaters, and tributes to Emperor Franz Joseph.
The carpenter and artisan who designed the original restaurant in 1971 is already working on plans to rebuild the famous porch on the building.
Ms. Guédon is also a leather artisan who designs pieces for the home that are inspired from the boot-making tradition; while these are commercial objects, they have frequently been shown in galleries.
West Elm is promoting items by Etsy vendors, Restoration Hardware has commissioned artisans to design products that look antique, and Pottery Barn is selling vintage pieces like pickling jars from Hungary and pillow covers made from old grain sacks.
Although Ms. Dodwell considers the work of modern Australian architects like Glenn Murcutt, a Pritzker Prize winner, "sexy as anything," she enlisted artisans to design quirky spins on traditional décor, such as a cast-concrete bathroom sink basin with an embossed platypus on the bottom, or colorful door thresholds painted to resemble Aboriginal dot art.
