Journal

What happens behind the doors: the restoration, the people, the paper and the coffee.

Spiral steel staircase running up the side of a tall pale silo against a blue sky

Restoring the press hall

8 October

How we saved the roof, the windows and a press from 1912.

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Carved linoleum block beside an ink roller, cutting tools and tubes of ink

The first block

1 October

What happens when someone picks up a gouge for the first time.

Black ink composition of angular mountains around a fjord drawn in white stripes, by Jacoba van Heemskerck

A fjord in black and white

23 September

The curator on one ink drawing and a hundred years of abstraction.

Seven enamel mugs of coffee from above on a dark wooden table

Seven mugs

16 September

Why our café never uses two mugs alike.

Long glass-roofed walkway under a yellow steel lattice, seen from below

Light from above

9 September

Glass, steel and a century of dust on the yard roof.

Open book on a weathered wooden table among fallen autumn leaves

Books under the leaves

2 September

The autumn second-hand book fair in the yard.