When you lift an instrument made by Charles Horner you sense the perfect balance of wood and air. It’s as if the key raw material isn’t the wood, but what is absent, some longing. From nearly nothing, from something others would throw on a fire—a rough-hewn core of a fallen tree—Charles Horner makes music. Charles Gene Horner, 83 Rockwood, TN. Charles Gene Horner hands me a fiddle, one that
[gdlr_image_link type="image" image_url="" link_url="" alt="" target="_blank"]Amsterdam. What began as a project for an art academy student in the Netherlands, emerged as a start-up with a unique application that is heart warming and healing. True Doors, based in Amsterdam, manufactures decals of doors designed to make a generic environment have some soul. While there are numerous practical applications for True Doors' clever products, one
[gdlr_image_link type="image" image_url="" link_url="" alt="" target="_blank"]Italy. Velvet curtains frame the stage, and are the shawl of royalty. The touch that is inviting and the play of light on the complicated piles and loops of threads add to its sensuality and esteem. The word 'velvet' itself is rich, as the fabric. Historians believe velvet weaving began in Baghdad, as in ancient Mesopotamia, before moving
