
By what means did so much beauty & ingenuity appears in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity & formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial & error individual craftsmanship & an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable & meaningful to a pre-industrial society The objects photographed & described by designer Jasper Morrison may be appreciated both for their beauty & for the example they set of design at its purest