Almost all of them are descriptions, not decorations. Here are seventeen.
1. A Trade Name Means the Trade Was There
Streets named for tanners, bakers, coopers, dyers, weavers or smiths…
The least designed-looking thing in the street, and all of it is deliberate. Here are ten.
1. The Backrest Decides How Long You Stay
A bench with a back supports…
Everything that happened in a room is recorded in what you are standing on. Here are fifteen.
1. Board Width Dates the House Roughly
Very wide boards generally mean early…
The gas is dissolved, not bubbled, and it is all trying to leave. Here are fifteen.
1. There Are No Bubbles in a Sealed Bottle
The carbon dioxide is dissolved…
A hole in a wall that has to behave like a wall. Here are fifteen compromises.
1. It Is a Deliberate Weak Point
A wall is there to keep weather,…
Some dishes improve and some collapse, and which is which is predictable. Here are fifteen things going on.
1. Flavour Compounds Keep Moving After the Heat Is Off
Soluble aromatic…