Surfaces

Materials in motion: Mirrl Materials in motion: Mirrl

ARCHITEXTURES takes you behind the scenes at the Mirrl workshop.

The tree that keeps its skin The tree that keeps its skin

There is a saying in Portugal, that ‘whoever cares about their grandchildren plants a cork oak’. The proverb is a clock.

Mirrl, the making of modern heirlooms Mirrl, the making of modern heirlooms

One evening, Simon was set to cook his hosts dinner. He opened a cutlery drawer to discover a pair of chopsticks. The chopsticks were unlike anything he’d seen before. Simon had discovered Tsugaru Nuri, a three-hundred-year-old Japanese lacquerware technique.