Almost everything that makes a chair comfortable or unbearable was decided by a handful of measurements, and they interact. Here are fifteen.
1. Seat Height Decides Everything Else
The distance…
Prints deteriorate through several separate processes, some driven by light, some by chemistry and some by whatever they were stored in. Here are fifteen.
1. Colour Prints Are Made of…
Every surface in a home collects the same grey film, and it is a record of everything that has been shed, tracked in or blown through recently. Here are fifteen…
A stair is a compromise between space and effort, and the dimensions that make one comfortable are older than any regulation that now enforces them. Here are fifteen.
1. Every…
The air around you is holding water you cannot see, and the amount it can hold depends almost entirely on temperature. Cool it enough and the water has to go…
There is a common way of describing chimneys that gets the direction of the mechanism backwards and consequently makes every practical problem inexplicable.
The description is that smoke rises and…