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Photo: John Cairns. Courtesy the Bodleian Libraries.

An Exhibition at Oxford Highlights the Sensorial Splendor of Books

Maison/Made's Extrait de Maison

Aromatic Face Oils, Made by Regenerative Farms in France

The Vitsoe kitchen.

Vitsoe’s In-House Chef Will Leigh on Keeping the Company Fed in a Pandemic

“Communicating Vessels” by Jenny Gräf Sheppard, on at the Sound Studies Lab through fall 2023. (Courtesy Sound Studies Lab)

A Lab in Copenhagen Looks at How Sound Explains the World

A bottle of Floris Bespoke on a white background.

Book a Scent Consultation With This 300-Year-Old Fragrance House

The “Urban Sun” installation at the Solar Biennale, designed by Studio Roosegaarde. (Courtesy the Solar Biennale)

An Energy Summit in the Netherlands Imagines a Solar-Powered Future

A closeup of two green leaves.

Renowned Perfumer Jean-Marc Chaillan’s Patchouli Obsession

A single red rose on a white background.

Why Roses Are Synonymous With Love

Courtesy Strange Attractor Press

A New Book Explores How, Via X-Rays, Banned Albums Made It Into the Cold War–Era U.S.S.R.

Courtesy OMA

For a Tiffany & Co. Pop-Up in Paris, OMA Designs a Literal Jewelry Box

A carving board with vegan burgers and bacon, onions, a cleaver, herbs, and condiments.

London’s First Vegan Butcher Shop Sells “Meats” That Rival the Real Thing

An assortment of colorful Claus Porto soaps on their white box.

Take a Vacation With These Soaps

“The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty” book cover

Dr. Katelynn Robinson Unpacks the Role of Odors in the Middle Ages

Headphones on a glass of liquid.

This Luxury Skincare “Miracle Broth” Is the Result of Sonochemistry

A painting depicts a young woman smelling a red flower.

According to This French Historian, “Bad” Odors Are Learned, Not Inherent

The custom “Organ²/ASLSP” organ in Halberstadt, Germany. (Photo: Ronald Göttel. Courtesy John Cage Organ Foundation Halberstadt)

In Rural Germany, a Six-Century-Long Performance of a John Cage Organ Composition Is Underway

Papier d’Arménie burning papers

These Scented Strips of Paper From France Are the Ultimate Deodorizers

Rose-colored Le Monde Beryl Venetian slippers.

Slip Into These Slippers While You’re Quarantined at Home

A hand holding a paper origami fortune teller

An Offbeat Exhibition in Madrid Puts the Focus on Curators

Courtesy Yale University Press

A Sonic Journey Inspired by the Expansive Landscapes of the Nordic Region

An Adam Fuss fungus photogram.

How Mushrooms Have Proliferated as a Material for Art-Making

Laurent Pouppeville, director of the Musée International de la Parfumerie. (Courtesy Communauté d’Agglomération du Pays de Grasse)

How Grasse, France, Went From a Smelly City to the Perfume Capital of the World

Cover of “Nichetto Studio: Projects, Collaborations, and Conversations in Design”

The Prolific, Genre-Defying Output of Luca Nichetto

China hammered and chased gold neck ornament, 4th to 3rd century B.C.E. Mengdiexuan Collection, Hong Kong. (Courtesy L’École, School of Jewelry Arts)

How a Parisian Jewelry School Has Opened Up Access to a Rarefied World

Laura Baldassari on a red background, singing.

Laura Baldassari’s Opera Playlist Is Exactly What We’re Craving Right Now

A bumpy white chair filled with black holes.

Marlène Huissoud Crafts a Provocative Chair for Insects

A diptych of a painting of cherry blossoms

Damien Hirst Presents an Evocative Forest of Cherry Blossoms at Paris’s Fondation Cartier

Soft Baroque’s coffee table for Vaarnii. (Courtesy Vaarnii)

How a Finnish Furniture Company Explores the Potential of Pine

Neanderthal perfume in a white case.

Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift’s Favorite Perfume

Rêveuse grower champagne

A “Grower Champagne” Brand Sources Its Wines From Independent Vineyards That Opt for Flavor Over Flash

Installation view of “Plastic: Remaking Our World.” (Photo: Bettina Matthiessen)

At Germany’s Vitra Design Museum, an Exhibition Considers the Promises and Problems of Plastic

Installation image of “The Art of Mushrooms.” (Photo: André Delhaye. Courtesy the Serralves Museum.)

At Portugal’s Serralves Museum, Mushrooms Are Works of Art

The entrance to the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

A New Bauhaus Museum Worthy of Its Lineage

Daniel Libeskind in a black suit in front of a red wall, sitting on a geometric seat.

Daniel Libeskind’s “Classical Studies” Playlist

Four Valke Vleug wine bottles in a carton.

Vincent Van Duysen on the Complex Character of Winery Valke Vleug’s First Vintages

Winemaker Frank Cornelissen

Made from Grapes Grown on an Active Volcano, These Wines Smack of Liquid Stone

Cartier's Milan flagship store

In Milan, a New Cartier Flagship Celebrates the City’s Opera

Balance (2022), a marble and onyx cabinet designed by OMA for Solid Nature’s “Monumental Wonders” exhibition at Alcova. (Courtesy Solid Nature)

Alcova 2022 Presents Designs That Look Inward, Outward, and Beyond

Aymeric de Gironde in an old truck on the vineyard.

What Makes a Great Vintage, According to Wine-Industry Veteran Aymeric de Gironde

Various people encased in glass bubbles stand on the beach near the ocean

A Digital Art Museum for the Time of Covid-19

Courtesy Aedes de Venustas

A New Perfume Translates the Greek Island of Corfu Through Kumquat

The interior of a fragrance boutique, with many bottles lined up on shelves.

Parisian Fragrance Boutique Nose Offers an “Olfactory Diagnosis”

A sparkler firecracker.

A Renowned British Composer Explains Four Legendary Christmas Songs

Three people underneath an Olafur Elaisson video installation.

Olafur Elaisson’s Latest Exhibition Offers a Hopeful Vision of the Future

A pink and blue throw blanket over a grey felt couch.

Røros Tweed’s Intricately Crafted, Beautifully Designed Throw Blankets

An arched white structure on a terrace

Ini Archibong Creates a Traveling Monument Devoted to the African Diaspora

Photo: Carlo Banfi. (Courtesy Flos)

Milan Design Week 2022 Preview: Salone del Mobile Is Back, But Not (Yet) in Full Force