Tools Magazine 6 - To Blow

The fifth issue of Tools explores the theme of spinning - both literal and metaphorical.

From the Earth's rotation to the cycles of time, spinning is at the core of life, movement, and creation. Craftspeople have long harnessed rotational forces with tools like potter’s wheels, lathes, and spindles. Glassblowers, dancers, skaters, and machines alike use spin to shape, move, and express. This issue celebrates the beauty and power of circular motion - whether in natural rhythms, kinetic art, wind turbines, or the mind’s looping thoughts.

Founded by Clémentine Berry, Tools is an annual publication that aims to simultaneously promote and investigate the details of manufacturing techniques and expertise used in art, design, interior architecture, industry and trade. Each issue documents the history, evolution, and continued relevance of a specific technique. This time, it’s all about rotation. 

Tools thus delivers an inventory of design, yesterday and today, from history to the transmission of little-known techniques, paying great attention to those who make these cult objects of our daily lives, and which convey the stories at the origin of our common imagination.

Through a historical assessment, reports from factories, the deciphering of savoir-faire, and iconic objects, Tools offers an enquiry into the foldings of yesteryear and the current day, by paying particular attention to those who produce the cult objects of our everyday life and thus convey the histories behind our shared imagination.