Hunter-gatherers
“We both love tools,” muses Caro Jesse de Waal, a designer who creates sensory experiences using food, art, scent and sound. She and her life partner, blacksmith Conrad Hicks, share a long-held interest in the everyday implements of human industry. “Artists’ tools, cooks’ tools, building tools – all tools are the same really. It just depends on the scale.” For Caro and Conrad, it goes deeper than an appreciation of the functional beauty of tools; it’s the way they shed light on human development – going all the way back
