Issue 14 · The Slow Issue
The Slow
Issue
On patience, repair, and the long way round — twelve stories about people who refuse to hurry.
Verso is a quarterly magazine about design, cities, and the people who make things. Printed on uncoated stock in an edition of four thousand.
In this issue
The feature · Essay
“We have built a century of shortcuts, and then wondered why nothing lasts the winter.”
Marlow Estévez spends nine months following four workshops that agreed, separately and without irony, to slow down: a bootmaker in Porto, a bench-maker in Ghent, a municipal repair counter in Turin, and a kiln that fires once a season.
14 min · p. 12
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Issue 14 ships from 3 August. Subscribers receive the archive in digital form and an invitation to the Verso reading nights.