Mike Kipp had a simple reason for starting to make his own canoe tripping paddles. “I just wanted a better paddle,” says the 54-year-old founder of Wilderness Paddle Works. A machinist at a small ...

“When we started out, we didn’t know a thing about woodworking”, Todd Randall says as he switches on a table saw and dons some ear protection. “We learned as we went and got a lot of advice from our ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “They are strongly charged objects, triggering ideas of travel and escape,” says Paris gallerist Jean-Baptiste ...