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Angela Roest of Centre & Main Chocolate Co. stands in front of a wall of her chocolate bars

Food and Drink

Meet the Makers: Angela Roest of Centre & Main Chocolate Co.

Is there a connection between fine jewelry and artisanal chocolate? Angela Roest, award-winning chocolatier and owner of Warkworth’s Centre & Main Chocolate Co., thinks so: “It’s the creation of something that will be cherished by somebody else. Giving pleasure, aesthetic or gastronomic.” The connection is more than a metaphor for Roest, who left a career

December 14, 2021

Christine Roberts of Modelia stands beside a tailor's dummy that is wearing a deep blue scarf

Meet the Makers

Meet the Makers: Eco-Conscious Textiles by Modelia

“Every time you think you’ve come up with a new way of doing something,” Christine Roberts says, “then I’ll do a little more research and think, ‘oh, well, that’s not really the case, that’s not new at all—they’ve been doing that for hundreds of years.’” Not that she’s complaining. Roberts’ slow fashion brand, Modelia, is

December 7, 2021

Leslie Robb of Swell Made Co holding a stack of blankets

Meet the Makers

Meet the Makers: Swell Made Co. Keeps It Simple, Significant, and Stylish

What is good design? Swell Made Co. founder and designer Lesley Robb takes a beat before she answers. “I think primarily it’s something that looks effortless and is very simple, which you’ll see in a lot of my work. It looks effortless because it’s actually quite complicated to make it look so.” Case in point,

November 30, 2021