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Entry No. 01
Editors' notes

The guarantee ledger — four things 'lifetime' means, read across seventeen makers

An editors' note that walks the shelves with one question: when a maker writes lifetime, what did it actually sign? Read across seventeen guarantee pages — socks to luggage to cast iron to lamps — the word resolves into four different promises: wear covered with no paper; a defect warranty wearing the word; a promise that dies with the first owner; and a promise gated behind registration or a receipt. The ledger, in one place, with the catch named for each.

  • ·editors' notes
  • ·lifetime guarantee
  • ·lifetime warranty
  • ·buy it for life
  • Honest
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  • Future
Entry No. 02
Editors' notes

Objects worth handing down — an editors' note on giving things that last

An editors' note on a quiet test the library keeps failing on purpose: most things bought for other people do not survive the year. What changes when the object given is one that can be repaired, refilled, resoled — and read again in thirty years. A walk along the shelves, read as a register of gifts.

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  • ·gifts
  • ·handing down
  • ·durability
  • Less
  • Deep
  • Future