In South Asian cooking, the spices are the whole point — and the masala dabba is where they live. This is that box: the round brass tin that's sat at...

The carved wooden door is one of the oldest features of Swati houses — an object that divides inside from outside and is made with enough craft to mark that...

Even the box that holds the tissues can be worth looking at — this one is silver-plated brass, worked all over in subcontinental florals. It's made by hand in Lahore,...

A silver-plated brass box made to hold the Quran — hand-engraved all over, set with a red aqeeq stone at its centre. It's worked by hand in Lahore, the brass...

There is a small ritual to arriving home: the door, and the keys that go where they always go. A key holder is one of those quiet objects you reach...