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1843 Magazine

December/January 2020

Cover Photograph /ILLUSTRATION EWELINA KARPOWIAK
Features
HIPPIE INC.
Half a century on from the summer of love, marijuana is big business and mindfulness a workplace routine. Nat Segnit asks how the movement found itself at the heart of capitalism
SOFT POWER
Down is nature’s most successful insulator and the global trade in feathers is thriving. Simon Rabinovitch goes in search of the marvellous matter inside your winter coat
Death in the alps
Two planes from the same airline crashed in the same spot in the Alps, 16 years apart. Now the melting ice is releasing their secrets. Simon Akam travels to Chamonix to meet the investigator who believes the truth has been buried
THE QUEEN & I
It took a director as bold as Melina Matsoukas to put Beyoncé on a cop car. Now she’s taking on the big screen with a radical film about race in America. Allison Davis hangs out with her in Los Angeles
Upfront
The 1843 interview Grave hopping with Gilbert & George
All the rage What the world is watching, wearing and slurping
Cheat's guide What women did for surrealism
Postcard from Silicon Valley A city drifts into the clouds
Brave new word In German, you can be spoilt for choice but never lost for words
Design
My life in six objects Ron Arad: the scrapyard chair that made me a designer
Brand illusions How The Ordinary perfected the art of medical minimalism
Stranger things I was taught that windows are occasions of sin
Beyond human How brain-controlled hearing aids could allow precision listening
Rewind Home DNA tests promise to reveal your true identity, but so did phrenology
Style
Dress code A lime-green dress turned me into a sexpot
The science of fashion How shirts lost their crease
The Line of Beauty Steppin’ out
Fashion victim I’ve had enough of miserable models
Food
The ingredient The charm of elderberries
Food + Drink How to eat like an Etruscan did (2,000 years ago)
World in a dish Go to Russia for the world’s best blinis
Journeys
Travel My search for the real Moominland
The bluff guide How to talk about Goa when you’ve never been
Taste the fear What it feels like to kayak down whitewater rapids
And finally...
How we live now Athleisure shows how clothing’s rules no longer exist
#FirstWorldProblems Do you know a good submarine-maker?