Writing from
the partners.

Provenance

On the Patience of Provenance

An essay on the long, slow, and inconvenient discipline by which an object's history is confirmed.

Letters

A Letter From Mayfair

On a January spent in London, the city's older institutions, and the long question of what is worth keeping.

Notes

The Vanishing Crafts of the French Atlantic Coast

First in a series — on the trades of the Vendée and Charente-Maritime, and the small number of practitioners by whom they are still conducted.

Voyages

On the Quieter Kind of Travel

A note on the journeys our members increasingly prefer, and the small number of houses by which they are properly arranged.

Residences

On the Ethics of the Managed Estate

A short essay on the duties owed by the absent owner to the staff and the locality of a private estate.

Letters

A Paragraph on the End of Summer

A seasonal observation, written at the close of August, in the Vaucluse.

Provenance

Watch Collecting Beyond the Auction Houses

An essay on the older trade in serious watches, conducted privately, in which the auction calendar plays a smaller part than the trade press supposes.

Residences

On the Patronage of Opera Houses

A short essay on what the older opera houses ask of their benefactors, and what their benefactors ought, in turn, to ask of them.

Voyages

A Hotel That No Longer Exists

A short note on a small house in the Veneto, sold last spring, and what was lost with it.

Notes

A Craftsman in Kyoto

A note on a single afternoon spent in a workshop south of Gion, and what was made there.