“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...

Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered gabled ...