He talks about building subway cars, though 3-D printers and artisanal design products are probably more like it, and even the hottest start-ups in high-tech zones are adding only a few dozen jobs at a time.
So does a "decorative arts" identity, promoted by the British Victorians who put the collection together: entrepreneurs scouring the globe for exotic commodities, and artists hoping to muffle the screech of the Industrial Revolution under a blanket of soothing artisanal design.
VCs are investing, hackers are taking notice, and a subculture of "artisanal" design, prototyping, and manufacturing has grown almost overnight.
By Terence Kwok for Fathom | Crafted coffee, artisanal pastries, design shops -- smells like a scene.
Mr. Brown, in Calgary, who makes his case for the artisanal house (designed by an actual architect, not a developer) on theslowhome.com, would go even further, suggesting that fast can make you fat and make you sick.
The southwest end of Frankford Avenue is becoming an artisanal avenue, with design shops, a small publishing press, restaurants and coffeehouses moving in to this former manufacturing district.
Since hosting the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, Turin, a northern Italian city along the Po River, has been transformed from a nondescript industrial city into a cosmopolitan center of artisanal food and modern design.
The "Brooklyn brand," synonymous with artisanal goods, handicrafts, and design boutiques is entering a new phase.
Mr. Boontje, who brought an artisanal sensibility into contemporary product design, may be the closest thing industrial design has to a celebrity -- he's at the Tate and, since late last year, at Target.
El Destilado's* chef formerly worked at Saison, a three-Michelin-star restaurant in San Francisco, and the menu — which emphasized "local, artisanal, organic" food — was designed to be ephemeral.
And in neat rows were those exquisitely handcrafted chairs, faintly Scandinavian, thoroughly artisanal and hyper-authentic by design.
