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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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 "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."--Wm. Morris.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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I work in the San Frediano neighborhood of Florence and it's still known as a center for the small workshops and studios of the craftsmen and women that once applied to most of city. I regularly stop in on the local carpenters, antique restorers, jewelers and luthiers, metalsmiths and bookstores. Around the corner and two blocks away on Via Borgo San Frediano is the AtelierGK run by the young and talented couple Lapo Giannini and Michiko Kuwata. He's a 6th-generation bookbinder and she's a Tokyo-born conservator and restorer of books and paper and they've done some work for me restoring some old illustrations and ephemera. Their small shop and workshop is full of handmade books and boxes, colorful hand-marbled papers and printed endpapers, shoes and jewelry boxes and the odd and curious tools of the bookbinder and their neat and orderly shop is a measure of their attention to detail and aesthetic of doing things as they should be done. On days that they're working, I like to pop in to watch what they're doing and other times just to see what they're up to or to discuss Japanese paper, books, boxes, or future projects. It's not unusual that the conversation turns to the importance of trying to reawaken in the public an appreciation for craftmanship and quality and hand-made things in a world of mass production and consumption.
A few days ago, however, they surprised me by asking if they could come by my little studio.  I'm tucked away on a little-traveled side street so I don't get many visitors.  They didn't know it's almost my birthday, but still, they left a remarkable gift.   

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
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