Tools #04: To Cut is the fourth annual issue of the magazine dedicated to manufacturing technique, turning its focus entirely on cutting — tracing the act across design history, craft practice, industrial process, and the makers who refined it into art.
About This Book
Each issue of Tools is built around a single technique, and the fourth takes cutting as its subject — not as metaphor, but as method. The magazine moves between past and present, examining how the cut has been understood, refined, and transmitted across disciplines: interior architecture, industrial design, craft, and trade. What distinguishes Tools from conventional design publications is its insistence on the detail of making — on know-how as knowledge. Interviews with practitioners, feature subjects, and selected objects are all chosen through the lens of the issue's technique, producing a coherent and genuinely investigative object. Essential reading for anyone who thinks seriously about process, materiality, and the history of manufacturing expertise.
Key Features
- 248 pages of technique-focused editorial spanning design history, craft, industry, and interior architecture
- Edited by Clémentine Berry
- Published by Tools Magazine, ISBN 9782957876938
What You'll Discover
- How the technique of cutting has been handed down across generations of designers, craftspeople, and industry practitioners
- The stories behind cult everyday objects — examined through the specific manufacturing expertise that produced them
- A methodology for design publishing that treats technique as the primary organising principle, rather than authorship or aesthetics
- Interviews and features selected entirely for their relevance to cutting, producing a thematically coherent and intellectually consistent issue
About the Author
Clémentine Berry is the editor and originator of Tools magazine. She also founded Twice, an art direction studio based in Paris. The annual publication she created investigates manufacturing techniques and expertise across art, design, interior architecture, industry, and trade.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 210 x 300 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782957876938
- Publisher: Tools Magazine
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, craft practitioners, and design historians with a serious interest in manufacturing process, material culture, and the transmission of technical knowledge across disciplines.