The artisan plays an important part in many cultures and the art of making something is ultimately universal.
They're not playing at the dreaded artisan word here, as others do, mostly by shoehorning "artisan" in front of anything they fancy; they're making the stuff fresh every day.
Henry Neville, the president of Mallett Inc., explained that increased demand from clients for contemporary pieces that were equal in quality to antiques led it, along with Meta's creative directors, Louise-Anne Comeau and Geoffrey Monge, to play matchmaker between traditional artisans and cutting-edge designers.
Around 1970, as the first mass-produced quartz watch movements began flowing into Switzerland, its artisans played an important role in reducing the size and complexity of the movements for placement into wristwatch cases.
The Netflix prison dramedy, based on the Piper Kerman memoir of the same name, scored nominations for its star Taylor Schilling, who plays Piper, a WASP-y artisan soap maker who is busted for smuggling drug money years after the fact.
The craft brewers play a role in Utah's nascent artisan food culture, participating in multicourse beer pairing dinners and beer-and-cheese pairing workshops.
Featuring a recreation of a 16th-century Tudor village, a replica of the Globe Theatre, Shakespearean plays, musical acts, and artisans fashioning period items such as pottery and potpourri.
The artisans are in the forest to rehearse a play for the forthcoming marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.
Every two years, on a weekend in September, the northwestern Italian town of Bra plays host to Cheese, a reunion of the world's artisan dairy producers, affineurs (cheese agers), shepherds and cheese experts.
The festival will also play host to a number of craft brewers and a variety of artisan crafts and goods.
