The Future of Craft: How to Keep Vital Skills Alive

In this episode, James Haldane, Executive Editor of Sotheby’s Magazine is joined by Daniel Carpenter, Executive Director of Heritage Crafts alongside Lucy Brown, CEO of the Hugo Burge Foundation and Louis Elton, Founder of Nations of Artisans and the British Cræft Prize.

Together, they discuss the future of craft and explore what it takes to keep craft alive in the modern world. Which skills matter most, and why? How can they be sustained, reimagined and made viable for the future? And what is lost when forms of knowledge rooted in the hand begin to disappear?

This podcast was recorded at Sotheby’s London in May 2026.

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