KW · § IX
Journal · Notes from us
Quarterly
§ IX — Journal
Notes from
us.
A quarterly publication. Field notes on materials, joinery, and the slow business of building things that last. Edited at the workshop; printed in New York; sent to clients and trade by post.
The archive
2024 — 2026
↳ 01
On material & finish
On paint, and the conversation about color.
Revere Pewter, Hague Blue, Roman Clay, and the eight coats that make a hand-rubbed lacquer behave like a piece of stone.
A trip to Tärnsjö, in October.
Notes from the Swedish tannery that supplies our leather, with a list of the chemicals not used in the process.
Pale, limed timber by the water.
Why we specify a pale, limed timber for mudrooms and houses near the coast, with a year-of-use field test.
↳ 02
On method
How we survey, in three dimensions.
Six paragraphs on the choreography of a LiDAR scan and a steel tape — and why we still bring both.
The joinery problem of a pre-war apartment.
Out-of-square walls, plaster substrates, and 10-ft ceilings — why a system from a catalog cannot fit a Park Avenue apartment.
What a custom closet actually costs in New York.
The honest bands — $3,500 reach-ins, $18K to $280K dressing rooms, $300K+ residences — and what drives the number.
A drawer, five ways.
A short tour of every drawer joint we use, in increasing order of resistance to gravity.
Why we sign every project.
A history of the maker's plate, from old-world cabinetmaking to today, and what we choose to engrave on it.
Defending the 32mm system.
An unfashionable argument in favor of the European adjustable-shelf module that runs through everything we make.
↳ 03
From the register
Building millwork for a Westchester house.
One drawing set, six rooms — Bronxville, Bedford, Greenwich.
№ 1001 — Riverside Drive.
The first project, in retrospect: the closet that became a studio.
Building a library for 4,000 books.
A 32-foot wall library in solid timber, designed for a working historian on the Hudson.
An interview with Alessandra Rota.
From the inaugural issue. On Milan, Boffi, and the slow road from cabinetmaking to studio.
+ Twelve essays in the archive — accessible to subscribers and clients
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Across the site
The twelve rooms.
Dressing rooms, pantries, mudrooms, libraries — the categories these field notes are written against.
Service areas, in full.
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Westchester, Greenwich and the East End — the geography behind the projects in the register.
The material library.
Every wood, finish, metal and leather kept on the bench — what the essays are made of.
§ 03 · By post
Four times a year,
by post.
Printed on uncoated paper in editions of 1,200. Leave a postal address; we send nothing else.