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Vol. III · Press & Studio Writing Established 2021 · Brooklyn, NY

A reading room for the
studio’s own writing
and the writing about it.

Necktie Sculpture — 64 editorial placements since 2022, alongside the slower journals our four full-time sculptors and conservator publish on process, materials, and care. Filed by year, by hand, by us.

Edited from the 4th-floor atelier · 118 West 27th Street, Floor 4 · Updated 2024
I. The Press Archive

Sixty-four placements,
filed by year.

A working record of named publications that have covered the studio since launch — GQ, Esquire, the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Monocle, Wallpaper*, and others. Grouped by year and ordered by issue, not by traffic.

Pitches and editorial enquiries: [email protected]

  1. 2024 Twenty-one placements
    • No. 064 Esquire Best of Menswear 2024 — Accessories November 2024 issue
    • No. 063 Financial Times · How To Spend It The Sculpture You Can Wear to a Wedding October 2024
    • No. 062 Monocle A Brooklyn Atelier Rebuilds the Necktie Issue 178, Summer 2024
    • No. 061 Wallpaper* Folded Origami, the Run of Seven May 2024
  2. 2023 Twenty-four placements
    • No. 057 GQ The Most Interesting Things You Can Wear This Spring March 2023
    • No. 055 Esquire Why One Sculptor Quit Everything to Make Neckties September 2023
    • No. 053 CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund 2023 Accessories Finalist — Caleb Voss October 2023
    • No. 050 Monocle Bergdorf’s New Permanent Install: A Menswear Floor First August 2023
  3. 2022 Nineteen placements
    • No. 037 Wallpaper* A Neckwear Studio Built Like a Foundary December 2022
    • No. 035 GQ The Tie That Wants to Be Inherited October 2022
    • No. 032 Financial Times · How To Spend It The Anatomy of a $640 Tie July 2022
    • No. 028 Esquire Eleven Hours, One Tie May 2022
II. Studio Writing — Recent Entries

Long, slow, and signed
by the hand that wrote it.

Three essays from the past season: one on materials, one on process, one from the conservator who handles the 25-year restoration guarantee. Filed in-house, not syndicated.

Silk swatches and tape on an oak atelier table. Essay 047
Materials

Six Mills, Nine Years, One Swatch Book

Our conservator pulls twelve swatches from the library on the fourth floor and explains why a mill in Como and a mill in Kyoto are not interchangeable — even when they look identical under raking light.

By Theo Marchetti, Conservator · 14 min read
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Sculptor's hands finishing a folded silk necktie. Essay 046
Process

The Twenty-Two Hours Inside Folded Origami

A walk-through of how a single Origami tie spends a full working week in one pair of hands — and why the seventh piece of every run is always the most expensive one to make.

By Caleb Voss, Founder · 22 min read
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Necktie being restored under a magnifying lamp. Essay 045
Conservation

What Our Twenty-Five-Year Promise Actually Covers

Inside the workshop where the in-house conservator restores ties shipped back from collectors in Berlin, Seoul, and São Paulo — the actual policy text, written without legal insulation.

By Naomi Okafor, Senior Sculptor · 18 min read
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A line, borrowed.

“The necktie has been a costume for a hundred years. Caleb Voss treats it like sculpture, numbers it like a print, and charges like an oil painter — and, against every instinct, the work holds.”

Financial Times · How To Spend It October 2024 On the Spring 2024 drop.