This time, the focus is on apprentice and master—in other words, on education.
Welcome a bookazine where relationships matter at least as much as work processes, materials, and products. A bookazine about apprentice and master inevitably deals with human generosity and professional openness, because that is what it takes when one assumes the responsibility of a master—a great responsibility that deserves to be met with respect. Apprentices and interns are not cheap labor, but people who should be met at eye level and whom one can help cultivate. The surplus is repaid in the form of inspiration and insight into the next generation’s perspective, as well as in the joy of passing on one’s knowledge. Being an apprentice, on the other hand, requires a certain degree of humility, along with a very large portion of dedication and enthusiasm.
The bookazine is also about the masters who influence us indirectly through their works—their masterpieces.
At The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, I met architect Nini Leimand, program director of the bachelor’s program Architecture’s Anatomy and Fabrication. She speaks about learning from canonized works, but also about contemporary masters who have something to say.
And speaking of masterpieces: the bookazine takes you behind the scenes of the creation of a small glass masterpiece. First, in a conversation with Mia Lagerman, who designed the glass, and then on a visit to Erika Kristofersson Bredberg, co-owner of the glass studio Glasbolaget, located in Bro north of Stockholm. Glasbolaget produces Mia’s glass. Erika was trained in Glasriket, which I also visited.
